THE LIFEBOAT.The Journal of the Royal National Life-boat Institution.

VOL. XrVIII.—No. 302.] JUNE, 1930. 6d.

Annual Meeting.THE Hundred and Sixth Annual GeneralMeeting of the Governors of the Institu-tion was held at the Caxton Hall, West-minster, on Monday, 7th April, at 3 p.m.The feature of the meeting was thepresence of Coxswains from English,Scottish, Welsh and Irish Stations toreceive Silver and Bronze Medals forgallantry during the gales of last winter.Of the seven Medallists, three were fromEnglish Stations : Newhaven (Sussex),Hythe (Kent) and Dungeness (Kent);two were from an Irish Station: Ros-lare Harbour (Co. Wexford) ; one wasfrom a Scottish Station: Longhope(Orkneys) ; and one from a WelshStation : Angle (Pembrokeshire).

Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., Chairman ofthe Committee of Management, pre-sided, supported by the Mayoress ofWestminster, Vice-Presidents of theInstitution and Members of the Com-mittee of Management.

The speakers were the Right Hon.William Graham, M.P. (President ofthe Board of Trade), Admiral Sir RogerKeyes,- Bt., K.C.B., K.C.V.O., C.M.G.,D.S.O., D.C.L., His Excellency theDanish Minister (Count Preben Ahle-feldt-Laurvig), The Bishop of Ports-mouth (the Right Reverend ErnestNeville Lovett, C.B.E., D.D.), Admiralof the Fleet Sir Henry F. Oliver, G.C.B.,K.C.M.G., M.V.O., Sir John Cumming,K.C.I.E., C.S.I., the Hon. George Col-ville (Deputy Chairman of the Com-mittee of Management), and Major-General the Right Hon. J. E. B. Seely,C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O.

Among those who accepted the invita-tion of the Committee of Management-were representatives, including theDanish Minister, of twenty foreigncountries. They were: Their Excel-

lencies the Ambassadors of Germany,Portugal, Belgium and the Argentine ;the Ministers of Norway, Sweden,Greece, Latvia, Mexico and Siam;representatives of the Ambassadors ofSpain, France, United States and Italy ;and representatives of the Ministers ofEsthonia, Bulgaria, Peru, China andRoumania.

The following Mayors and Mayoressesaccepted the invitation: The Mayorsand Mayoresses of Fulham, Leyton,Lewiaham, Bermondsey, Finsbury,Greenwich, Acton and Southampton; theMayors of Stoke Newington and Chelsea.

Among others who accepted theinvitation were : Sir Robert Hamilton,M.P. for Orkney and Shetland, andLady Hamilton; Sir George McLarenBrown, K.B.E., European GeneralManager of the Canadian Pacific Rail-way ; representatives of the RoyalHumane Society, the ShipwreckedFishermen and Mariners' Royal Bene-volent Society, the Seamen's Hospital,Greenwich, the National Union of Sea-men, the Marine Engineers' Association,the National " Safety First" Asso-ciation, the Mercantile Marine ServiceAssociation, and the Orkney and Shet-land Society in London; an Officer andparty of fifty boys from the training-ship Arethuaa, and an Officer and partyof twenty boys from the training-shipStork.

There were also present HonoraryLife Governors of the Institution;holders of the Institution's Gold Badge ;members of the Central London Women'aCommittee of the Ladies' Life-boatGuild, and representatives of Branchesand Guilds.

The following is a report of themeeting:—

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Sir Godfrey Baring.The CHAIRMAN : Your Excellencies, my

Lords, Ladies and Gentlemen,—We are privi-leged to welcome as our chief speaker thisafternoon the President of the Board of Trade,the Right Hon. William Graham. (Applause.)He has, unfortunately, to leave this meetingearly owing to the unceasing curiosity of ourlegislators at Westminster. He will have togo, to be precise, at 3.25. The Royal NationalLife-boat Institution is nothing if not re-sourceful, so we shall adopt on this occasion anovel procedure. I am going to ask Mr.Graham to be kind enough to move a resolu-tion which stands in his name, and then afterhe has contributed his much-appreciated quota•—an expression not unknown to the Bight Hon.gentleman, I think (Laughter)—to our meet-ing, I will then go back to the beginning of theagenda and we will go on with the rest of theproceedings. I will ask Mr. Graham to addressthe meeting at once.

The Right Hon. William Graham.The EIOHT HON. WILLIAM GBAHAM : Sir

Godfrey Baring, your Excellencies, my Lords,Ladies and Gentlemen,—The resolution whichyou have kindly asked me to move this after-noon is in the following terms :

" That this Meeting, fully recognising theimportant services of the Royal NationalLife-boat Institution in its national workof life-saving, desires to record its heartyappreciation of the gallantry of the Cox-swains and Crews of the Institution's Life-boats, and gratefully to acknowledge thevaluable help rendered to the cause by theLocal Committees, Honorary Secretariesand Honorary Treasurers."May I say that I greatly appreciate the

kindly words of introduction of our Chairmanthis afternoon, and especially the kindness ofyour office-bearers in arranging that I mayleave this meeting at an early hour, due, as theChairman has quite rightly indicated, to theunceasing calls of Parliamentary duty.

It is, I think, in every way appropriate thatone who is, for the time being, at the Board ofTrade should attend a meeting of this kind topay a tribute on behalf of the Government,and, so far as he can, on behalf of the public, tothe admirable work in which this Institutionis engaged. (Applause.) The elementaryfigures which lie behind this effort this after-noon are themselves in many ways impres-sive. We have rather more than 5,000 milesof coast, and in spite of all the vicissitudes ofindustry and commerce and the depression ofrecent years, we are still a great maritimecountry, engaged or interested in the marketswhich are to be found in every part of theworld, and therefore dependent to a verylarge extent on our overseas trade.

To that enterprise, for more than a hundredyears, this Life-boat Service has made its con-tribution, and in all the technical documents ofrecent times I have found nothing so interest-ing, if I may say so, as that little leaflet whichdescribes the foundation of the Life-boat Ser-

vice 106 years ago. During that time we cantrace a very remarkable record. In a periodof rather more than a century 62,000 liveshave been saved from shipwreck—(Applause)—and, as these reports properly point out, thelives, in the vast majority of cases, were thoseof men engaged in the mercantile marine ser-vice of this country, and therefore engaged invery important tasks of bringing commodities,raw materials and foodstuffs to these shores, orin conveying to other shores the goods whichthis country produces from year to year.

That in itself is a very remarkable record.Then during the past year, the year which isunder review in this Report, 363 lives weresaved from shipwreck, or almost one per day.A very large proportion were saved by the Life-boats themselves, the remainder being savedby vessels from the shore. That is again avery remarkable record. Apparently verymuch of that beneficent enterprise was neces-sary during the exceptional gales of Decemberlast year and the early months of the presentyear. Altogether the past year has added itsquota (if I may use that word which the Chair-man quite properly recalls) to the very greatrecord which the Institution enjoys. (Ap-plause.)

An enterprise of this kind calls, of course,for adaptation from time to time to newtechnical developments for the greater effi-ciency of the Service. I understand that from1908 there has been a process of transformingthese vessels from rowing or pulling beats tothe new motor type : that even during the dis-location and the crisis of the war this technicaldevelopment made progress, and that cer-tainly since 1917 this progress has beenaccelerated, so that a very large proportion ofthe more than two hundred Life-boats whichare available around these shores are Life-boats containing the latest technical and otherdevices for saving life at sea. That itself musthave contributed very largely to the efficiencyof the fleet.

I am also reminded this afternoon that thiseffort relates to the saving of life particularlyamong men of our mercantile marine : that is,saving the lives of men of wide experience andof great training, indispensable to the com-merce of this country, and indispensable, Ithink we may assert without lack of modesty,to the commerce of many other countries,because all commerce is, of course, mutual andinterdependent in character.

This Service is national in its scope. Thosetales of heroism which add lustre to the pagesof the Report are not confined to any part ofthese shores. England, Scotland, Wales andIreland have all made their contribution todeeds which deserve to rank with the proudestof the efforts which have been made by thisService since its foundation in these islands.(Loud applause.)

Beyond that, this Service is international incharacter. I think a similar Service has beenestablished in fifteen other countries. I under-stand, too, that there is correspondencebetween this country and other countriesabout the Life-boat Service relating to its

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international co-operation and efficiency, andespecially to the perfecting of those technicaland other devices upon which from time totime it must rely. So that from every point ofview—first of all from the very strong humanappeal which this Institution makes, and inthe second place from the point of view of itscontribution to efficiency and safety in ourcommerce—this Institution has every right tolook ior widespread public support. (Ap-plause.)

I am reminded that this is one of the in-numerable services in this country in whichwe rely not upon the cold technicalities of anAct of Parliament, but rather upon the volun-tary effort of large numbers of our fellow-citizens. Scattered over 1,000 cities, townsand villages there are men and women whoyear by year are prepared to take a definiteinterest in this work, and to see that onthe financial side and on the human sideit succeeds around these shores. This is areason which of itself would entitle theInstitution to an enthusiastic response toany popular appeal. Then I think also thatthis is an Institution which unites menand women of all political and economicfaiths in the State. We meet here under anyand every Government to pay our tribute tothis Institution and to wish it well in its bene-ficent enterprise. With those words, and withthe warmest commendation which I can giveyou in all your work, I beg to move the resolu-tion standing in my name. (Loud Applause.)

The CHAIRMAN : I am sure that this meetingwould wish me to express to Mr. Graham ourcordial and grateful thanks for the inspiringwords which he has addressed to us, and alsoour gratitude that he has found time amidsthis innumerable engagements to come andaddress us this afternoon, and we will makethe best return we have in our power. We willrelease him now from this meeting, and wishhim God-speed in the House of Commons.(Applause.)

(The Right Hon. William Grah'jm retired fromthe Meeting.)

Sir Godfrey Baring.The CHAIRMAN : Your Excellencies, my

Lords, Ladies and Gentlemen,—Under thispeculiar procedure we are now going back-wards to the beginning of the agenda ; and ifyou will look at your agenda you will see therather menacing words, " Address by theChairman." I will try to make that addressas brief as I possibly can, but it has beenthought well—not by myself, may I say, butby my colleagues—that I should offer someexplanatory remarks with regard to theAnnual Report and the Accounts which arepresented to the Governors at this Meeting.

The Report is, I think, a full and clear recordof the activities of the Institution during lastyear, and the Accounts present in an under-standable form the financial position of theInstitution. May I say just one word, and oneword only, with regard to the accounts. Ishould have thought it unnecessary to say itif it were not for a personal experience which

I had the other day. I met a gentleman whowas very hard pressed to give some excuse whyhe should not subscribe to the Institution, andhe said that he regretted to find that it neverpublished its accounts. He was inaccurate tothe extent, I think, of 106 years. (Laughter.)For 106 years the Institution has published itsaccounts. They have been audited by one ofthe most eminent firms of chartered accoun-tants in London, and they have been presented,for the criticism and remarks of the public.

I wonder, ladies and gentlemen, whetheryou quite realise—I know that although I havebeen associated with Life-boat work for a longtime it is difficult for me to realise—that ourLife-boat Institution, our Life-boats and men,are responsible for guarding no less than 5,000miles of coast, and that coast-line is really thecentre of the world's shipping. At every pointof danger, there you will find a Life-boat anda Crew of brave Life-boatmen ready to put outto sea at a moment's notice. Mr. Graham saidjust now that we have saved in the long andglorious history of the Institution 62,000 livesfrom shipwreck. All human lives are valuable,but I venture to say that the large majority ofthe lives which are saved by our Life-boatmenare of special value, because in most instancesthey are the lives of men in the prime of life,breadwinners upon whom women and childrendepend for their subsistence; and if youthink of how much misery, how much grief,and how much destitution have been saved bythe intervention of our Life-boatmen, I amsure you will agree with me that our Institu-tion is worthy of the support of every goodcitizen of this country. (Applause.)

It is one of our proud boasts also that ourLife-boatmen have been instrumental insaving the seafaring citizens of every countrywhich possesses a mercantile marine; andthat is why we welcome with such especialpleasure the representatives of many foreigncountries at our meeting here this afternoon.(Applause.)

In the Report you will find an account of theprogress of our Motor-boat construction. Ithas made great strides during the last fewyears. In 1910 we had only nine motor-boats.Now, in 1930, twenty years afterwards, wehave 87 motor-boats on our coasts, and wehave a large number of slipways for launchinground our coasts, provided with every up-to-date equipment to make them efficient.Equipment of that kind is very tedious todescribe in a speech, but it is absolutely neces-sary if our Life-boat work is to be reallyefficient.

I should like to say, as I am sure theGovernors remember, that we are still respon-sible for Life-boat work in Ireland. At thespecial request of the Irish Free State Govern-ment and of the Northern Ireland Governmentwe have gone on with our Life-boat work inNorthern Ireland and in the Irish Free State.The most anxious consideration has beengiven to the needs of the Irish coast by theCommittee of Management, and, as usual, Ire-land has come off very well in that respect.(Laughter and Applause.) May I read you

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some rather interesting figures. Figures aretedious at meetings, I know, but it is no goodbeing a chairman of a meeting if one cannotbe tedious. England has 73 Fulling and SailingLife-boats and 46 Motor Life-boats. Scotlandhas 22 Pulling and Sailing Life-boats and 17Motor Life-boats. When we get to Ireland wefind that Ireland has 10 Pulling and SailingLife-boats and 13 Motor Life-boats; andWales has 13 Pulling and Sailing Life-boatsand 11 Motor Life-boats. That is anotherinjustice to poor old England, and anothertriumph for our Celtic neighbours. (Laughter.)

In our Annual Report we have tried to givegeneral expression to the gratitude which wefeel for the great munificence of the greatshipping companies throughout the countrywho have recently made presentations of boatsto the Institution. (Applause.) We aredeeply grateful for that generosity, and weare, of course, like all charitable institutions,always asking for more. Therefore may Isuggest very respectfully that perhaps thegreat trawler-owners in this country mightgive a little further financial support to thefunds of the Institution. The present supportof trawler-owners is just a little disappointing,having regard to the fact that our Life-boatsare often instrumental in saving the lives offishermen and in standing by fishing vessels.May 1 make this suggestion to the trawler-owners of this country: that they should seetheir way to contribute 5s. per trawler to thefunds of the Institution each year. That is notvery much to ask, and I hope that Grimsby andLowestoft papers will please copy. (Laughterand Applause.)

Some of the support which we have receivedis really extraordinary in its generosity. Ishould like to mention one instance, for,though it may seem invidious to pick out anyindividual contribution, yet it is such a wonder-ful contribution that I am sure the Governorswill allow me to mention it. The employeesof the London, Midland and Scottish Railwayactually contributed last year a sum of £893.(Applause.)

There was another incident to which Ishould wish to refer. Owing to the kindnessof the British Broadcasting Company, ex-Cox-swain Swan was allowed to make an appeal bywireless to England, Wales and NorthernIreland. The response to that appeal fromthe public came to over £750. (Applause.)We received hundreds of contributions of 1*.and 6d. from working men and working womenall over the country; and thoso small sub-scriptions are specially welcome to and speciallyappreciated by the Committee of Management.(Applause.)

That brings me to this: that it would be avery evil day indeed for the Institution—andI am sure the Governors will agree with mewhen I say so—if flag days were abolished.There are some persons so curiously con-stituted as to say that they do not like flagdays. I cannot understand an opinion of thatkind. I have never been in any town on anyflag day without buying a flag. Often I havenot known what the cause was for which the

flags have been sold, but I have invariablybought a flag (Laughter and Applause); andI believe the only way to secure the support ofall classes of the community for a great charitylike the Life-boat Institution is by means offlag days. When I have the honour of speak-ing for the Life-boat Institution, I always quotean experience of my own in the inland town ofLeicester. On a peculiarly odious April day,four or five years ago, I was standing outsideone of the chief works in that town when themen were coming out for their dinner interval.It was Life-boat Day in Leicester, and we hadfour ladies selling flags at the gates. Of thefirst 100 workmen who came out on that day—and it was blowing and raining, an appro-priate day for Life-boat Day—eighty-nine meabought Life-boat flags. (Applause.) Surely itcannot be contended for one moment that weshould have received that most welcome sup-port by any other means than a flag day. Andmay I venture to commend to your most cor-dial and enthusiastic support the London Life-boat Day, which is going to be held on the20th May next, and which we hope to make avery great success.

Mr. Graham mentioned the internationalcharacter of Life-boat work. That has beenvery much accentuated in recent years. Dur-ing our centenary year, in 1924, we had anInternational Life-boat Conference in London,when nine nations were represented. In theyear 1928, in Paris, we had a second Inter-national Conference, when seventeen nationswere represented; and on that first occasionI think I am right in saying that Count Yoshii,the representative of the great Japanesenation, actually travelled about 3,000 miles inorder to be present. (Applause.)

Only one word in conclusion; and I mustapologise for having kept you so long. I havespoken of our boats, and of our generous sub-scribers, and of our efficient equipment; butall this organisation of boats, committees,workers, inspectors, organisers and subscriberswould be a mere organised hypocrisy if it werenot based on the constant vigilance and theunyielding, steadfast courage of our splendidLife-boatmen. (Loud Applause.) For 106years those Life-boatmen have faced everyperil, have surmounted every difficulty, andhave endured every hardship in the sacredservice of humanity. For 106 years these menhave never failed, and, God willing, they willnot fail in the future, to do their duty. Thatword " duty " is ever engraved on their hearts,if it is not often uttered by their lips.

" Not once or twice in our rough island storyThe path of duty was the way to glory."

(Loud Applause.)Before I pass to the next item on the

agenda, Ladies and Gentlemen, would anyGovernor like to ask any question or tomake any remark on the Annual Report andAccounts 1 If anyone desires to ask anyquestion, we will do our utmost to answer it.. . . As there appear to be no questions orremarks I will go to the next business on theagenda.

By courtesy of]THE SEVEN MEDALLISTS OF THE GREAT GALES,

October, 1929, to January, 1930.

(L.S.A.

Left to right: Coxswain James Wickham, Rosslare Harbour; Mr, W. J. B. Moncas, Hon. Secretary atRosslare; Coxswain Harry A. Griggs, jun., Hythe; Coxswain Douglas Oilier, Dungeness; Coxswain

James Watkins, Angle Coxswain Richard Payne, Newhaven ; Coxswain John Swanson, Longhope.

By courtesy of]THE ANNUAL MEETING IN 1930.

Ij[Keystone View Company.

In front of the table. Admiral Sir Roger Keyes, with Coxswain Harry Griggs, jun,, of Hythe, and CoxswainDouglas Oilier, of Dungeness. Behind the table, left to right. Sir Godfrey Baring, Mr, George F. Shee.

and the Danish Minister.

58 THE LIFEBOAT.In the name of, and on behalf of, the Com-

mittee of Management of the Royal NationalLife-boat Institution I hereby nominate thefollowing noblemen and gentlemen as suitablepersons to fill the various posts and offices inconnection with the Institution during theperiod dating on and from the 7th April, 1930,until the date of the Annual Meeting of theGovernors of the Institution in 1931, and alsoMessrs. Price, Waterhouse & Co. as Auditorsfor the same period.

President.H.E.H. The Prince of Wales, K.G.

Fice-Presidenta.The Archbishop of Canterbury.The Duke of Atholl.The Duke of Montrose.The Duke of Portland.The Duke of Northumberland.The Marquis of Ailsa.The Marquis of Aberdeen and Temair.The Earl of Derby.The Earl of Albemarle.The Earl Waldegrave.The Earl of Lonsdale.Admiral of the Fleet the Earl Jellicoe of Scapa.The Viscount Burnham.Commodore Sir Richard Henry Williams -

Bulkeley, Bt., R.N.R.Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt.Sir W. E. B. Priestley.Mr. Harry Hargood.Miss Alice Marshall.Mr. Noel E. Peck.

Treasurer.The Earl of Harrowby.

Other Members of the Committee ofManagement.

Mr. Charles G. Ammon, M.P.Mr. Ernest Armstrong.Mr. H. Arthur Baker.Rear-Admiral T. P. H. Beamish, M.P.Lieutenant-Colonel J. Benskin.Mi. Frederick Cavendish Bentinck.Major Sir Maurice Cameron.Captain Charles J. P. Cave.Colonel Lord William Cecil.Mr. Kenneth M. Clark.The Hon. George Colville.Sir John G. Gumming.Engineer Vice-Admiral Sir Robert B. Dixon.Vice-Admiral Sir A. A. M. Duff.Commander Herbert G. Evans, R.N.R.Captain Guy Fanshawe, R.N.Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson.Mr. K. Lee Guinness.Admiral Sir Lionel Halsey.The Hon. Esmond C. Harmsworth.Commodore Sir Bertram F. Hayes, R.N.R.

(retired).Captain G. C. Holloway, R.N.R.Sir Frederick Thomas Hopkinson.Captain the Earl Howe, R.N.V.R.Mr. J. F. Lamb.

Colonel Sir A. Henry McMahon.Commander Sir Harry Mainwaring, Bt.,

R.N.V.R.Mr. Algernon Maudslay,Sir Frank C. Meyer, Bt.Admiral of the Fleet Sir Henry Francis Oliver.Sir Gervais S. C. Rentoul, K.C., M.P.The Right Hon. F. O. Roberts, M.P.The Right Hon. Walter Runciman, M.P.Major-GeneraY the Rt. Hon. Jotei E.Colonel the Master of Sempill.The Lord Southborough.Commander F. F. Tower, late R.N.V.R.The Lord Tredegar.The Right Hon. William Dudley Ward.

And ex-officio.The Lord Mayor of London.The Admiral Commanding Reserves.The Deputy Master of the Trinity House.The HydrographeT oi the ^avy.The Chairman of Lloyd's.

I declare these noblemen and gentlemenduly elected.

¥ mentation oi Medab fat GdboAr?.We now come to the presentation of Medals

for gallantry in saving or attempting to save lifefrom shipwreck. In the absence of Mr. Graham,those Medals will be presented by AdmiralSir Roger Keyea. ^A.p9la.use.\ I mil e&k. thaSecretary to read out the services for whichthe Medals have been awarded.

The SECRETARY then read the accounts ofthe services for which the Medals and otherAwards had been given, and the Medals werepresented \>y Adrrnrai Sir Roger X.eyes asfollows:—

To COXSWAIN JAMES WICKHAM, of RosslareHarbour, Co. Wexford, a Second Service Claspto the Silver Medal, which he won in 1914, forthe rescue on 20th October, 1929, of the crewof five of the schooner Mountblairy, of Ply-mouth.

To MR. W. J, B. MONCAS, Honorary Secre-tary at Rosslare Harbour, the Bronze Medal forthe same service.

To COXSWAIS HATKB.X X. GKKKV&, J\5U., -ciHythe, Kent, the Silver Medal for the rescueon 12th November, 1929, of the crew of threeof the barge Marie May, of Rochester.

To COXSWAIN DOUGLAS OILIER, of Dun-geness, Kent, the Bronze Medal for the sameservice.

To COXSWAIN JAMES W ATKINS, of Angle,Pembrokeshire, the Bronze Medal for therescue on 26th November, 1929, of twenty-eight lives from the s.s. Molesey, of London.

To COXSWAIN RICHARD PAYNE, of New-haven, Sussex, the Silver Medal for the rescueon 7th December, 1929, of the crew of ten ofthe Danish schooner Mogens Koch. CoxswainPayne already holds the Institution's BronzeMedal.

To COXSWAIN JOHN SWANSOST, of Longh.ane^in the Orkneys, the Silver Medal for the rescueon 5th January, 1930, of eight men from thesteam trawler Braconmoor, of Aberdeen.

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(A full account of these services appeared inthe last issue of The Lifeboat.)

The CHAIRMAN : I will now ask Sir RogerKeyes to second the resolution which Mr.Graham moved before he left the meeting.

Admiral Sir Roger Keyei.

Admiral Sir ROGER KEYES : Mr. Chairman,your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen,—I have very great pleasure in seconding—and itis a very great honour to me to be asked tosecond—the resolution which has been so ablyproposed by the President of the Board ofTrade. I think there can be few Naval officerswho during the late war had more to do withboth the deep sea and longshore fishermen ofGreat Britain, who form the backbone of themen from whom the Life-boat Crews are drawn,than I. When I came here this afternoon Iintended to tell you some of my experiences oftheir great gallantry, apart from their life-saving, and their great value to the countryduring the war ; but when I looked round andsaw my friend the German Ambassador, 1said to the Lord Bishop of Portsmouth, inwhose diocese I live, " I think that has rathertaken the wind out of my sails, because Icannot possibly talk about the war " ; and hesaid to me, " Well, we didn't ask you to comeand talk about yachting." (Laughter.) So Ithink I will get on with it. Then I lookeddown again, and I remembered (and I hope theAmbassador remembers, too) how very soonafter the war, when the King of the Belgianscame to pay a visit to England, I wasattached to him, and at a party at Bucking-ham Palace we talked a good deal aboutwhat we had done in the war; and someonesaid to me, " Go and talk to the GermanAmbassador; he looks rather down on hisluck." I did so, and I remember how wemade friends then, and T am sure he will bearwith anything I say, and will feel as proud ofthe fishermen of whom I am going to speak asI do.

When I went out to the Dardanelles oursweeping fleet in the Dardanelles was made upof trawlers whose speed was about seven knots,and as the current ran at about three knots, itmeant that the mines had to be swept downthe current, which again meant that thetrawlers had to go through a score of search-lights and heavy fire in order to get into theposition to sweep the mines. It would be diffi-cult to imagine anything more formidable andterrifying than that; and I think few whowere out there will ever feel anything but thegreatest pride and admiration for those fisher-men who, in the early days of the war, camestraight from their fishing-grounds to sweepmines under those terrible conditions. (Ap-plause.)

Later on in the war, when I was Admiral atDover, I had some 300 vessels under my orders,and I suppose about 150 of them were fishingvessels, and they were employed in every sortof work in connection with keeping the seasswept clear of mines, patrolling and so on. At

that time there was the very serious menace ofGerman submarines, which were streimingthrough the Straits, and there was an enormousmine-field laid which was kept as light as dayfrom darkness until dawn, and on that mine-field about 100 fishing craft were incessantlypatrolling. Now, Ladies and Gentlemen, youcan imagine that a patrol of that sort invitedattack, and when you have a worthy andgallant enemy you are sure to get attacked. Ithink there is no finer page in the history of thefishing-fleet of the British Isles than the atoryof what happened on the night when that patrolwas attacked. It suffered terrible losses,losses which were enough to dismay anybody,but the next night, although some 80 fisher-men had been killed, that mine field was litand patrolled ; it was even more brightly lit,and we had more fishing-boats on patrol,and from that day onwards that patrolwas never challenged. (Loud Cheers.) Thathad a very great effect in stopping our greatlosses in the Channel from the enemy's sub-marines.

I am so tremendously interested in thesepeople that I was very proud when I was askedto speak here to-day and to be given theopportunity to tell you of the splendid gallan-try of the fishermen in those anxious and ter-rible days. For those are the people who manthe Life-boats. (Applause.) It is a very greathonour to me to have pinned those Medals onthe breasts of these gallant men, and in thesematerialistic days it is a great satisfaction toknow that we in these islands have thisenormous reserve of gallant men, who will goout and risk their lives, and display mostmagnificent seamanship, steadfastness andcourage, in order to save their comrades, ofwhatever nation they may be, who are in dis-tress. (Applause.)

However important machinery is, it is theman that really matters, and surely it is up tous, who live sheltered lives on shore, to see toit that the machinery, the boats and thematerials they have are the very best in theworld. That, Ladies and Gentlemen, is whatwe are here for to-day. We are here to appealto you to help the Life-boat Institution toprovide them with the best equipment and thebest boats in the world. In seconding thisresolution, I am sure I can confidently appealto you to subscribe generously to this splendidService. (Applause.)

The CHAIRMAN : Ladies and Gentlemen,—Iwill now put the resolution to the Meeting :

" That this Meeting, fully recognising theimportant services of the Royal NationalLife-boat Institution in its national work oflife-saving, desires to record its heartyappreciation of the gallantry of the Cox-swains and Crews of the Institution's Life-boats, and gratefully to acknowledge thevaluable help rendered to the cause by thelocal Committees, Honorary Secretaries andHonorary Treasurers."

(The Resolution was put to the Meeting andcarried unanimously.)

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Presentation* to Honorary Life-Governors.The CHAmMAS : I will now ask the Secre-

tary to give you particulars of the work forwhich Awards have been granted to honoraryworkers.

The SEOBETABY : An Honorary Life-Governoiship is the highest honour which theInstitution can confer on its honorary workers,and is given only for long and distinguishedservice as a Station Honorary Secretary orin furthering its appeals for financial support.Since the last Annual Meeting four honoraryworkers have been appointed Life-Governors,and I will give their names in the alphabeticalorder of the Branches with which they areassociated.

APPLEDOBB (DEVONSHIRE).Mr. H. C. WHTTEHEAD has been appointed

an Honorary Life-Governor in recognition ofhis long and valuable services as HonorarySecretary of the Appledore Station Branch.

COLWYN BAT (DENBIGHSHIRE).Mr. T. E. POBDY, J.P., C.C., has been

appointed an Honorary Life-Governor inrecognition of his long and distinguished ser-vices as Honorary Secretary of the Colwyn BayBranch.

COVENTBY (WARWICKSHIRE).Alderman A. H. DRTNKWATER, J.P., has

been appointed an Honorary Life-Governor inrecognition of his long and distinguished ser-vices as Chairman of the Coventry Branch.

DUBLIN.Major ABTHUB WHEWELL has been appointed

an Honorary Life-Governor in recognition ofhis long and distinguished services to the Life-boat Cause in Dublin.

A copy of the Vote, inscribed on Vellum andsigned by His Royal Highness the Prinae ofWales, as President of the institution, is pre-sented to each Honorary Life-Governor. Ofthese four gentlemen, only Mr. Purdy, ofColwyn Bay, is able to be present this afternoonto receive his Vellum.

(The Chairman then presented the Vellum toMr. Purdy.)

Presentation of Gold Brooches andPendants.

The SECBETABY : The Gold Pendant orGold Brooch also is awarded only to honoraryworkers who have given distinguished service.Since the last Annual Meeting eighteen havebeen awarded. I will read out first the namesof those who are not present to receive theirawards. The Branches with which they areassociated are given in alphabetical order.

BABMOBTH (MEBIONETHSHIBE).To Mrs. J. E. HEATH, in recognition of her

valuable co-operation as Honorary Secretaryof the Ladies' Life-boat Guild.

BATH (SOMEBSET).To Mrs. G. GOLDIE, in recognition of her

valuable co-operation as Honorary Secretaryof the Branch.

CHTPPEBFIELD (HEBTFOKDSHTBE).To Mrs. LATHBUBY, in recognition of her

valuable co-operation as Honorary Secretaryof the Branch.

COBK (co. COBK).To Mr. H. P. F. DONEGAN, in recognition of

his long and valuable co-operation as HonorarySecretary of the Branch.

EXETEB (DEVON).To Mrs. ABTHUB REED, in recognition of her

valuable co-operation as Chairman of theBranch and Ladies' Life-boat Guild.

HOLYWOOD (BXLSABT).

To Mrs. F. L. HEYN, in recognition of herlong and valuable co-operation as President ofthe Ladies' Life-boat Guild.

LLANDUDNO (CAERNARVONSHIRE).To Mrs. E. M. MABKS, J.P., in recognition

of her valuable co-operation as Vice-Presidentof the Ladies' Life-boat Guild.

LONDON.To the Lady FLOBENOE PEBY, in recognition

of her long and valuable services, latterly asHonorary Secretary of the whole Ladies' Life-boat Guild of Great Britain and Ireland.

TENBY (PEMBBOKESHTBE).To Miss HABVEY, in recognition of her

valuable co-operation for many years in raisingfunds.

The following are present this afternoon toreceive their awards :—

CLEVEDON (SOMEBSET).Miss A. EDWABDS, in recognition of her long

and valuable co-operation as Honorary Secre-tary of the Branch.

COVENTRY (WABWIOKSHIBE).Mr. WH.LIAM LIOOINS, in recognition of his

long and valuable co-operation as HonorarySecretary of the Branch.

KESSINOLAND (S0rroLK).Mrs. B. WOOLFIELD, in recognition of her

long and valuable co-operation, latterly asHonorary Secretary of the Ladies' Life-boatGuild.

LABNK (co. ANTRIM).Miss L. MOBEOW, in recognition of her valu-

able co-operation as Honorary Secretary of theBranch.

LEAMINGTON (WABWICKSHIBE).Mrs. B. A. HOLDING, in recognition of her

valuable co-operation as Honorary Secretaryof the Branch.

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LOWESTOIT (SoTWOLK).

Ex-Coxswain JOHN SWAN, in recognition ofhis valuable co-operation in raising funds, inparticular by his wireless appeal from London,which brought in nearly £750.

Coxswain Swan, who in his retirement isgiving this valuable help to the Institution onits financial side, is one of the most distin-guished of our Life-boatmen. He was Cox-swain at Lowestoft from 1911 to 1924. Heholds the Institution's Gold Medal—the Vic-toria Cross of the Life-boat Service—and hastwice won its Silver Medal. In 1924, theInstitution's Centenary Year, he and the otherGold Medallists were received at BuckinghamPalace by the King, and His Majesty presentedto each of them the Medal of the Order of theBritish Empire.

POBTBITSH (00. ANTRIM).

Mrs. J. G. MoMoRBis, in recognition of herlong and valuable co-operation in raising funds.

SHEFFIELD (YORKSHIRE).Mr. JAMBS HENDERSON, in recognition of his

long and valuable co-operation as HonorarySecretary of the Branch.

SOUTHAMPTON (HAMPSHIRE).Mrs. WALTER, for her long and valuable

co-operation as Honorary Secretary of theBranch. Mrs. Walter's son has been at seasince he was fourteen years old, and was servingon board the Vestris as assistant surgeon whenshe sank in a gale in November, 1929, withheavy loss of life. Mr. Walter was in the waterfor seventeen hours before he was picked up,and then went overboard again and rescuedthree lives. (Applause.)

(The Chairman th$n presented the GoldBrooches and Pendants.)

The CHAIRMAN : I will now call upon HisExcellency the Danish Minister to move thenext resolution.

.The Danish Minister.The DANISH MimisTsa (Count Prebea Ahle-

feldt-Laufvig): Sir Godfrey Baring, my Lords,Ladies and Gentlemen,—It is often said thatthe sea divides, but that is not the case withDenmark and Great Britain. Sea-borne tradeand shipping is every day creating new andstrong links between our countries. Greatnumbers of Danish seamen are serving in theBritish mercantile marine and the Britishfishing fleets, and the language our seamenspeak, when they are not using their owntongue, is English. No links of friendship,however, are stronger than those which havebeen cemented in moments of distress.(Applause.)

Great dangers for shipping lurk on bothsides of the North Sea. In Denmark we havethe treacherous sand-bars on the coast of Jut-land, and on the English side the cliffs and theconstant fogs, but we have also on both sidesof the North Sea the National Life-boat Insti-tutions of England and Denmark, which have

rendered valuable services to life and propertyduring a period of more than a hundred years.The examples where Danes have assisted Eng-lish and English have assisted Danes in distresseither on the high seas or on the* coasts of thetwo countries are innumerable. I will onlyquote a few examples :

On 12th September, 1919, Silver Medals forGallantry in Saving Life at Sea were awardedby His Majesty the King of England to severalof the crew of the Danish steamship Mary, to-gether with Silver Cups, awarded by the Boardof Trade, in recognition of their services inrescuing Mr. G. H. Hawker and CommanderKenneth M. Mackenzie-Grieve in the AtlanticOcean on the 19th May, 1919.

On 27th June, 1922, His Britannic Majesty'sGovernment expressed its thanks to severalDanish fishermen of the Skaw in Jutland forservices rendered to the British steamshipMonkatone, which had become icebound southof the Skaw from the 2nd to the 7thFebruary, 1922.

On 9th December, 1924, His BritannicMajesty's Government expressed its apprecia-tion for the services rendered by the Captainand Crew of the s.s. Lexa Maersk for rescuingin the North Atlantic Ocean the crew of theBritish s.s. River Dare. (Applause.)

Now I should like to quote some Englishexamples:

On the 4th January, 1804, the Claoton Cox-swain received the Silver Medal from HisMajesty the King of Denmark in recognitionof the service in which seven were rescued fromthe brigantine St. Alexei.

On 31st January, 1911, the Coxswain of theRamsgate Life-boat received the Silver Medalfrom His Majesty the King of Denmark inrecognition of his services in rescuing the crewof seven from the schooner Danmark.

On 21st December, 1920, the JohnshavenLife-boat Crew received Silver Cups from HisMajesty the King of Denmark, and a gratuitywas given to the widow of one of the Life-boatmen, in connection with the rescue ofseven front the schooner Fredenaborg. On thisoccasion, unfortunately, two of the rescuedmen and one of the Life-boatmen lost theirlives on the return from the wreck to theshore.

There is, however, one special example of alater date which I will emphasise by readinga whole paragraph of the Annual Report ofthe Royal National Life-boat Institution for1929.

(The Minister then read the account of theservice of the Newhaven Motor Life-boat to theDanish schooner, Mogens Koch, on 1th Decem-ber last, and, after referring to the Awards madeby the Institution, continued as follows :)

Those brave deeds of British seamen havealso crfeated a wave of enthusiasm in mycountry, and I am glad to say that my Govern-ment has recognised these English heroes ofthe sea by awarding a Gold Watch with in-scription to Coxswain RICHARD PAYNE; andSilver Cups to each of the members of theCrew: WILLIE CLARK, Second Coxswain;FREDERICK PAYNE, Bowman ; ERNEST CAN-

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TELL, Motor Mechanic; CHAKLES HOLDBB,Assistant Motor Mechanic ; FBKDEKICK JONES,RICHARD LOWEK, and BENJAMIN JACK CLAEK.Coxswain Richard Payne, will you kindly stepforward.

(The Minister then made the presentation toCoxswain Richard Payne amid applause.)

Now I have talked a long while about ourmen-heroes, but I think it would be mostappropriate, too, to say a few words about thewomen-heroes who stand behind the RoyalNational Life-boat Institution. I offer mythanks to the seamen's and fishermen's wives,who often in times of distress have helped theirfathers, brothers and husbands to launch theLife-boat into the raging sea ; but I must alsomake myself a spokesman of the many voiceswho wish to accord the Ladies' Life-boat Guildtheir heartfelt thanks for all their exertions tokeep the Institution financially afloat. It is ahard and thankless job in these depressed anddifficult days to collect money, and so muchthe more I must admire our brave ladies whohave made it possible to balance the Institu-tion's big budget. (Applause.) I will there-fore propose the following Resolution :

" That this meeting desires to record itssense of the deep obligation of the Institu-tion to the Ladies' Life-boat Guild and itsmany hundreds of voluntary workers for theLife-boat Cause, and its conviction of theincreasing importance of the part which theGuild is destined to play in educating publicopinion with regard to the value of the Life-boat Service, and in raising funds therefor."

(Loud Api'laune.)

The Bishop of Portsmouth.The BISHOP OK PonTawonTH ^he Right Rev.

Ernest Neville Lovett): Sir Godfrey Baring,my Lords, Ladies and Gentlemen,—I feel it anextraordinary honour to be allowed to seconda resolution proposed by His Excellency theDanish Minister. As he talked I was thinkingof how a thousand years ago his countrymenlanding quite successfully on a very dangerouspart of the coast of Kent, without the need o1any light-houses or Life-boats, trounced todeath with beef-bones a member of the Epis-copal Bench. I am quite sure that his GraceAlfred, Archbishop of Canterbury, before hepassed from this sphere of life, hardly knewwhich to admire most, th« skill of the Danes inlanding on the coast or their remarkable effi-ciency in disposing of an Archbishop in thaiway. Anyhow, the great traditions of the seamaintained by the Danish- people from thetime when they were our fear and dread up tothis present time, and no doubt for the futuremake it a great privilege for me to be allowecto second a resolution proposed by the DanishMinister. Otherwise I am bound to say I havewondered why I was asked to come here tospeak to you this afternoon. I came to theconclusion that it was because I am the onlyBishop in England, I think, who very often, twoor three times a week, crosses the ocean to anadjacent island. Perhaps you do not recognisethe Isle o! Wight under that description, but

let me tell you that any native of the Isle ofWight would recognise this land as an adjacentisland. (Laughter.)

The Isle of Wight has its own splendidrecords of Life-boat work. The three boats ofBrooke, Atherfield and Brighstone have, in th»last forty or fifty years, saved nearly 1,000lives—(Applause)—and it is an honour to meto have been sitting at a Life-boat meetingwith the stroke of the Brook Life-boat (GeneralSeely) on my right hand. It is always splendidwhen gallant men support gallant causes, andhaving Sir Roger Keyes here this afternoonand General Seely, whose gallantry in the fieldin only equal to his gallantry with the Life-boats, and being able to claim both of them asbeing in the Diocese of Portsmouth, I feel that,after all is said and done, I have a right to saya few words. (Applause.)

What I want to say is this, that I do thinkthat we owe a very great debt of gratitude tothe Ladies' Life-boat Guild, which does somuch to provide the necessary funds and tospread the news to the country of the Life-boats and their gallant crews by whose meanslife is saved all round our coasts. Those arethe two things it does and both are of first-rateimportance.

The members of the Guild enable us, whohave no special, direct contact with the sea, toexpress our sympathy; and their activity aswomen is an expression of their sympathywith the mothers and wives of the seafaringfolk along our shores, and especially of theLife-boatmen. I think we often forget thedesperate strain and the hardness of the life ofa woman whose husband is constantly goingforth to stormy seas, and I should like toremind you of couplets from opposite ends ofthe country which suggest the thought. Youremember :" Men must work and women must weep,

And there's little to earn and many to keep,And the harbour bar is moaning."

That is from Devon. Then you have anotherfrom Edinburgh :

" Wives and mitherg maist despairing callthem lives of men."

That is said about herrings—" Lives of men."That expresses what is going on in the homesround the coast; and that the women -who arei ot living under those conditions, who, by theiractivities in connection with the Life-boats, doall they can to further the cause and to spreadthe interest, is a constant witness to those" wives and mithers " often " maist despair-ing."

Very often the women have to go out andhelp to launch the Life-boat which is to carrytheir husbands into danger on an errand ofmercy. It must be a desperate thing to haveto do. I ask any of the women here to realisewhat it must be to wake up in the nightwith a tremendous gale raging and see yourhusband getting up and going to the workof rescue, perhaps himself not to return.It is well that we should show our sympathywith the ladies who devote themselves to thiscause, and •whose work, is to help to obtain

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more efficient Life-boats round our coasts. Weowe a very great debt of gratitude to them,and I hope they realise that we appreciate thework that they do. I beg to second theresolution. (Applause.)

The CHAIRMAN : The resolution, which hasbeen moved by His Excellency the DanishMinister and seconded by the Bishop of Ports-mouth ia as follows :

" That this Meeting desires to record itssense of the deep obligation of the Institu-tion to the Ladies' Life-boat Guild and itsmany hundreds of voluntary workers for theLife-boat Cause, and its conviction of theincreasing importance of the part which theGuild is destined to play in educating publicopinion with regard to the value of the Life-boat Service, and in raising funds therefor."

(The Resolution wot put to the Meeting andcarried unanimously.)

The CHAIRMAN : I will now ask Admiral ofthe Fleet Sir Henry Oliver to move a formalresolution.

Sir HENRY OLIVER : Your Excellencies, myLords, Ladies and Gentlemen, — I beg to movethe following resolution :

" That this Meeting do approve and ratifythe sale of the old Life-boat Houses atClactou-on-Sea and Bye, which are no longerrequired for the purposes of the Institution."

Sir JOHN COMMIN^ : Mr. Chairman, yourExcellencies, my Lords, Ladies and Gentlemen,— I have much pleasure in seconding this formalresolution.

(The Resolution was put to the Meeting andcarried unanimously.)

The CHAIRMAN : I will ask the DeputyChairman of the Institution to move a vote ofthanks.

The Hon. George Colville.The DEPUTY-CHAIRMAN : Mr. Chairman,

your Excellencies, my Lords, Ladies andGentlemen, — The resolution which stands inmy name on the paper is one which I shallnow have much pleasure in proposing, andI know it will be accepted by you in avery hearty manner. The Committee ofManagement appreciate very greatly thepresence on these occasions of a CabinetMinister, to-day the President of the Board ofTrade, with which Department the Life-boatInstitution is very intimately associated.Again, we have the presence of His Excellencythe Danish Minister, who has very kindly pre-sented to the Coxswain of the Newhaven Life-boat a valuable present from His Majesty theKing of Denmark. I would formally ask him,on behalf of this meeting, to convey to HisMajesty our humble thanks for the very kindthought which has prompted this presentation.(Applause.)

Again, we have had a sailor to address us inno less a person than Admiral Sir Roger Keyes.It is unnecessary for me to eulogise him, nor

could I find the words to express his great deedsof gallantry—familiar to you all—at Zee-brugge and other places during the war. Wehave also here the Bishop of Portsmouth,whom we are very glad to see. The kindwords which these speakers have said area source of very great encouragement tothe Committee oi Management; to the manyhonorary workers throughout the countrywho help us ; and, above all, to the bravemen and the women, of whom we have hadspecimens before us here to-day—the men whoman the Life-boats without thought of thedanger that they incur, who do their gallantwork and who come home and say nothingabout it. (Applause.) The Admiral referredto the expenditure which we incurred and thenecessity for good gear and good boats. Ithink I might almost say that it is the mottoof the Committee of Management that nothingin the way of gear or boat is too good for theLife-boat Crews. I have much pleasure in pro-posing that the hearty thanks of this Meetingbe given to the speakers at this, the Hundredand Sixth Annual General Meeting of the RoyalNational Life-boat Institution. (Applause.)

The CHAIRMAN : I will ask General Seely tosecond the resolution, in the absence of theRight Hon. F. 0. Roberts, M.P.

Major-General Seely.Major-General SEELY : Mr. Chairman, your

Excellencies, my Lords, Ladies and Gentle-men,-—It is with great pleasure that I secondthis vote of thanks to our speakers here to-day. I am sorry that Mr. Roberts cannot behere, but he, like Mr. Graham, is a Member ofthe House of Commons. But I have it fromMr. Roberts and Mr. Graham that they areheart and soul with the Life-boat Cause, andthat there is nothing they will not do whichthey can do to forward it. (Applause.)

We are grateful to the speakers; we aregrateful to you, your Excellency, for cominghere to-day. It is quite true, as you said, thatthe Life-boat knows no difference among thenations. You, my Lord Bishop, made refer-ence to my connection with a Life-boat. Myservice for the last thirty or forty years isnothing compared with the services that wehave heard of to-day. But I have had a gooddeal of experience, and that experience is thatyou never know what sort of ship is comingashore. Even in my own experience I haveseen ships of five nations whose crews neededto be rescued in the region where I live. There-fore I welcome the presence of representativesfrom so many of the nations in the world.

I am glad, too, to see Sir Roger Keyes, who,I see, is described as an Admiral, and quiteproperly, because he is and will be for anotherfew weeks, but we all know that in about an-other six weeks he will become an Admiral ofthe Fleet—(Applause)—the highest rank towhich any sailor of this kingdom can aspire.We rejoice that it has come to him so young.I suppose he is the youngest brat of a boy whohas been made an Admiral of the Fleet inpeace-time for as many years as anyone nowliving can remember. (Applause.)

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I gathered from your speech, Admiral of theFleet, that you swear by the Life-boatmen andfishermen as you used to swear at them whenrequired in the breezy days gone by. I happen,as I told you, to live in a place where I meet agreat number of fishermen and Life-boatmenand sailors of all sorts, and this is what theytell me : they say, " Well, he used to swear atus and to swear by us, and, by God, we swear byhim "; and Of all the sailors in the Fleet hehas earned the affection and respect of the sea-faring population in almost the highest degree.(Applause.)

Last, but not least, we have to thank theLord Bishop of Portsmouth. We are gratefulto you, my Lord Bishop, because you made afirst-class speech for us, as I am sure everyonehere will agree. (Applause.) A great speaker,and a great Bishop, representing the greatestnaval port in the world—what more worthyman could be found to make an appeal at thismeeting. (Applause.)

The Bishop has made an eloquent appeal forMotor-boats. There are five Motor Life-boatsfor which we want gifts—for Clactou-on-Sea,£8,500; for Courtmacsherry, also £8,500;

and again the same sum for the Cromartyboat. For Campbeltown we want £11,000;and for St. Peter Port, Guernsey, also £11,000.Those are the particular boats, just built orbuilding, for which we urgently need gifts, andif you can influence one of your wealthy friendsto come forward and help us to provide one ofthose Motor Life-boats, which may enable usto save lives which otherwise would be lost,you will be doing a very valuable work.

I am sura that you will all agree that we owea hearty vote of thanks to our speakers to-day.(Loud Applause.)

The CHAIEMAN : Shall we carry that vote ofthanks by our hearty and enthusiastic ap-plause ? (Prolonged applause.)

(The Meeting then terminated.)

Entertainment of Medallists. r

After the Meeting the Medallists were enter-tained to tea at the House of Commons by theRight Hon. F. O. Roberts, M.P., Minister ofPensions, and in the evening they were theguests of Sir Oswald Stoll at the Coliseum.

The Ladies' Life-boat Guild.The Ladies' Life-boat Guild, of which

H.R.H. the Princess Louise, Duchess ofArgyll, is the Patron, and the Duchess ofSutherland the President, has addedthree distinguished names to its officers.The Duchess of Northumberland, whois President of the Am wick Guild, andPatron of the Newcastle-on-Tyne Branchhas accepted the Guild's invitation tobe one of its Vice-Patrons. The Mar-chioness of Londonderry, D.B.E., who

is President of the Belfast Guild, hasbecome a Vice-President of the Guild,and Mrs. James MacNeill, the wife ofthe Governor-General of the Irish FreeState, who is President of the DublinGuild, has also become a Vice-President.England, Scotland, Wales, the IrishFree State and Northern Ireland arenow all represented among the officersof the Guild.

Articles Held Over.ALTHOUGH this is an enlarged numberit has unfortunately again been neces-sary to hold over, owing to lack ofspace, the article on the new fast typeof Motor Life-boat stationed at Dover ;the article on Grace Darling's coble atthe North East Coast Exhibition atNewcastle, and the arrangements whichare being made, with the generous helpof Lord Armstrong, to provide a per-manent house for it at Bamburgh, whereGrace Darling is buried; and thechapter from Major-General Seely's

book of reminiscences, " Adventure,"describing a Life-boat Service in whichhe took part as a member of the Brooke(Isle of Wight) Life-boat Crew. Wealso hope to publish in the next issuereviews of several books dealing withthe sea, including Captain Frank H.Shaw's " Famous Shipwrecks," (pub-lished by Messrs. Elkin Mathews &Marot, 12s. £>d. net), which containsgraphic accounts of a number of famousLife-boat services.

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The Institution's Expenditure at a Glance.How each £100 of the Institution's Expenditure was laid out in 1929.

£ s. d.42 0 0 ^™"^^^—^^^™"""^^^^«™—-«^~ Construction and Repair of

Life-boats, Carriages and Tractors.

14 3 0 —^^—^^— Payments to Life-boat Crews; Rewards for WreckServices ; Retaining Fees; "Wages; Payments for Exercises ;Grants to Injured Men and Pensions.

12 0 0 ——— Propaganda and Publicity, in connexion with Headquarters and over 1,000 Branches.

11 7 0 ™—^^^~ Provision, Custody and Inspection of Life-boat Stores.

10 17 0 ^——• Construction and Repair of Life-boat Houses andSlipways.

3 16 0 •—• Amount spent locally at Life-boat Stations.

3 1 0 — Technical Supervision and Inspection of Life-boat Stations.

2 16 0 ™ Administration.

£100 0 0

(For full Statement of Expenditure, see pages 112—115.)

The Institution's Income at a Glance.How each £100 of the Institution's Income was obtained in 1929.

£ s. d.41 14 0 i^——"M^—^^—^^—^—•—— Subscriptions, Donations,

and Life-boat Days.26 11 6 ——i^— Legacies.

15 7 6 —^—^^— Special Gifts.

14 9 6 «•—•••••M™ Income from Investments.

1 2 0 - Life-boat Funds.

15 6 - Sales.

£100 0 0

(For full Statement of Income, see pages 112—115.)

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Two Wrecks in the Shetlands.Stromness Motor Life-boat's Journeys of 260 and 240 Miles.

DURING March and April two vesselswere wrecked on the Shetland Islands.They were both vessels sailing fromAberdeen. One was a trawler, the BenDoran, and, in spite of courageousefforts to rescue her crew, all weredrowned. The other was the mail-steamer St. Sunniva, which plies be-tween Scotland, Orkney and Shetland.All on board were rescued.

Both wrecks were notable for theefforts at rescue made by the newMotor Life-boat stationed at Stromnessin the Orkneys. In the case of theBen Doran, she had a journey, out andhome, of 260 miles. This is the longestjourney on service which has been madeby any Motor Life-boat, and it wasmade in the worst conditions of weather.In the case of the St. Sunniva, shetravelled 240 miles. In the first case shearrived to find that the crew hadperished. In the second case, they hadbeen rescued by other means. Butthough they were without result, thesetwo journeys are a notable proof, notonly of the endurance of the Crew, butof the very fine sea-going qualities of theBarnett type of Motor Life-boat.

The Vee Skerries.The Ben Doran was wrecked on the

Vee Skerries, a reef which lies to thewest of the Shetlands. The nearest landis Papa Stour, three and a half miles tothe south-east. The reef is imperfectlycharted, and is thus described by theTown Clerk of Lerwick :—

" The old Norse names themselvesare suggestive. The name Vee Skerriesmeans ' the skerries that swim in thesurface,' and the Ormel, the principalskerry, simply means the broken rem-nant. There is a bad tideway in theneighbourhood of the Vee Skerries, andthe Atlantic swell coming in from deepwater, striking the shallows and beingunhampered by backwash, breaks overthem in a way that astonishes evenexperienced seamen. There is approxi-mately a square mile of skerries andblind rocks, and, unfortunately, the

Ben Doran had reached about the centreof this area before she was held fast. Inthe weather and sea conditions existingat the time, the position of the crew wasreally absolutely hopeless, but nothingwas known in Lerwick on the Saturdaynight as to the exact position of thetrawler, the report being simply that shewas on the Vee Skerries."

The Saturday night in question was29th March, and the news of the wreck,which had been brought by anothertrawler, reached Lerwick shortly-beforefive in the afternoon. The DistrictOfficer of Coastguard, Mr. Faint, at oncecalled out the Board of Trade's Life-saving Apparatus. A gale was blowing,with a very heavy sea and snow squalls.The Apparatus was taken by motorlorry to Ronas Voe, on the west side ofthe mainland, and there embarked onthe steam trawler Arora. Before leavingLerwick the Coastguard Officer tele-graphed to the Life-boat Station atStromness information of the actionwhich he was taking.

The skipper of the Arora, though hehad fished on the west side of Shetlandfor thirty years, had never been verynear to Vee Skerries, always giving thema wide berth. Nor could anyone befound at Ronas Voe who knew theSkerries. At two in the morning of the30th March, the Arora put out, with theintention of approaching the wreck assoon as day broke.

Shortly after the Life-saving Appara-tus left Lerwick, Mr. G. T. Kay, whohad become Honorary Secretary of theLerwick Branch of the Institution ashort time before, when it was decidedto establish a Life-boat Station there—learnt that the motor haddock boatSmiling Morn was lying at Voe, Olna-firth. Mr. Kay knows something of theVee Skerries, having been ashore on oneof them. He felt that a smaller vessel,like the Smiling Morn, with a four-oared boat in tow, might be of morevalue than the Arora; so, with Mr. JohnFalconer, master of the trawler Boscobell,and Mr. W. H. Dougall, of the Missions

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to Seamen, he went at once to Voe, andenlisted the help of the Smiling Morn.That no time might be lost, and thatthey might be on the scene of the wreckby daybreak, they put to sea at once,with a 20-feet boat in Jow, and made forHousa Voe in Papa Stour (the nearestisland to the Vee Skerries) where theyhoped to find a man with good know-ledge of the reef. Even by daylight theentrance to Housa Voe is very difficult.To enter it, as they did, in the middleof a pitch-black night, with half a galeof wind and a heavy sea was an act ofgreat daring. When entering the creekthey actually passed within a few yardsof a sunken rock, the position of whichwas only disclosed by a heavy seabreaking close alongside. At Housa Voe,the Smiling Morn took on board Mr.John Henderson, a crofter, who had atonce agreed to join the rescue-party, andput to sea again. She reached the VeeSkerries just before five in the morning.The Arora had already arrived.

Men in die Rigging.A very heavy sea was running, with a

strong gale blowing, and the Ben Dorancould be seen, high in the centre of theSkerries, stern to wind. The seas werewashing over her and the rescuersthought that they could see five menin the rigging, with the spray blowingright over them.

The Arora steamed round the Skerries,but could find no place from which itwould be possible to fire lines to theBen Doran. She lay in the middle of thereef beyond reach. The Smiling Mornthen made her attempt, the Arorastanding by. She worked her way intoths broken water as near as she could tothe wreck, until she was stopped byoff-lying reefs. She went in so far, infact, that those on board the Aroradoubted if she would get back. Shereturned in safety, however, and re-ported that seven men could be seen inthe rigging and that they had waved toher. Mr. Kay, and those with him onthe Smiling Morn, thought that theArora might get within 500 or 600 yardsof the wreck. But at such a distanceit would still be far out of range of therockets. It was clear that the men in

the rigging of the Ben Doran werebeyond hope of rescue.

The justice of this decision was con-firmed two months later by Mr. Kay,who spent his holiday in his own boaton the west side of the Shetlands andvisited the Vee Skerries. Of this visithe wrote: " I managed to land on thetwo main portions of the Vee Skerriesand was able, with the assistance oftwo friends, to fix the position of theill-fated Ben Doran, on the day of herwreck, as at least 600 yards to the west-ward of the nearest skerry. Even hada landing been effected on the saidskerry—the only means of approachdue to the seething reefs all round theother points of the compass—it isabundantly clear that rescue wouldhave been hopeless."

A Brave Attempt.The Coastguard Officer, who had

watched the Smiling Morn's braveattempt, said that wind and sea couldscarcely have been worse; and what theconditions were may be judged from thefact that a " tide lump," which justtouched the stern of the Smiling Mornherself, fell right aboard the 20-feet boatwhich she was towing, and the boatsimply collapsed and disappeared.

The spirit of the men who made theattempt may be judged by the followingletter from a resident in Shetland :—

" John Jamieson [the skipper of theSmiling Morn] would have gone on thereef if allowed. . . . He said that hedid not mind the loss of his boat, oreven the loss of his own life. " Whatwas it worth in the face of what hewas seeing," was the drift of one of hissayings. He was determined to go on,and I understand there was almost afight on board the Smiling Morn. Atany rate, the others tied up Jamieson,and locked him up so that he wasunable to go on further."

The position was, in fact, hopeless.Brave men had done all that could bedone. There was nothing for it but togive up the attempt. Both boats leftthe reef, the Arora steaming round itonce more before she went, and as soonas the Coastguard Officer reachedLerwick again he informed the Strom-

By courtesy of] [The Caxton Photo Service, Hull.

THE ADMIRALTY FUELLING STEAMER, ROSA.Ashore under the Flamborough Cliffs, April 28th. 1930.

(See page 70.)

THE NEW BRIGHTON MOTOR LIFE-BOAT GOING TO THE HELP OFTHE EMILE DELMAS.

From the water-colour painting by Mr, William McDowell. The painting (21 inches by 30 inches)has been presented to the Piel (Barrow) Branch, by the artist, for sale on behalf of the Branch funds.The price is 15 guineas. For the reproduction of another painting by Mr. McDowell showing the actual

rescue, see page 91.

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ness Life-boat Station of the failure ofthe attempts at rescue.

This message was received at Strom-ness at four in the afternoon of Sunday,30th March. The Crew were assembledand at 4.45 the Life-boat set out. Agale was blowing from South to South-East. The sea was very heavy. Thevisibility was poor. The Life-boatmade for Scalloway, a journey 134 milesdistant, and a telegram was sent askingthat food, fuel and a pilot should beready waiting for the Life-boat's arrival.She travelled through the night, reach-ing Scalloway at 7.30 on the followingmorning, 31st March. She took the pilotand fuel on board, and left again at9 o'clock. The distance to the VeeSkerries was about 25 miles. Shearrived at noon. Nothing of the trawlerwas then visible but the gallows. TheLife-boat thoroughly searched the Sker-ries, but there was no sign of life. Shereturned to Scalloway, arriving aboutfive in the afternoon. At 6.30 on thefollowing morning she left for Stromnessin the teeth of the southerly gale, andarrived at eleven that night. She hadbeen away from her station for just overfifty-five hours, and had travelledaltogether 260 miles in the worst condi-tions of weather.

In recognition of these gallantattempts, the Institution has made thefollowing awards :—

To the Acting-Coxswain, WILLIAM LINKLA.TEB,and the Stromness Crew, £10 each.

To the. Pilot whom they took on board atScalloway, £3 19*.

To Mr. KAY, an inscribed pair of PrismaticBinocular Glasses.

To Mr. JOHN FALCONER, master of the Sosco-bell, a special Letter of Thanks.

To Mr. DOUOALL, of the Missions to Seamen, aspecial Letter of Thanks and an award of £5.

To Mr. J. J. JAMUHSON, master of the SmilingMorn, an inscribed pair of PrismaticBinoculars and a monetary award of £5.

To each of the remaining three men of theSmiling Morn, a monetary award of £5.

To Mr. HENDBBSON, crofter of Hoosa Voe, anaward of £4.

To EDWABD P. ABIE, the owner of the lostboat, £11 (the value of the boat).

A sum of 15s. has also been paid to Mr. J. J.JAMIESON as the owner of the Smiling Morn,for fuel consumed.

The Wreck of the St. Sunniva.NINE days after the Stromness Life-boatreturned from Vee Skerries, she wasagain called out to a wreck in theShetlands. Shortly after five in themorning of 10th April a message camethrough by wireless from the Coast-guard at Wick to say that the s.s. St.Sunniva had gone ashore on Mousa,on the east side of the Shetlands.A moderate south-westerly wind wasblowing and the sea was moderate, butthere was a thick fog. The Life-boatwas under way half an hour after themessage was received. Four hours latera second message came to say that thethirty passengers on board the steamerand her crew had all been safely landedin the steamer's own boats, and a tele-gram was sent to Fair Isle to recall theLife-boat, if possible, but it was un-successful. She reached Mousa at sixin the evening, and learnt from a steamerthat all on board the St. Sunniva hadbeen rescued. The weather was stillvery thick, so the Life-boat made care-fully for Lerwick, where she arrived at7.20. Owing to the fog the Coxswaindecided to remain there for the night,but later, as the fog had lifted, andthe moon was shining brightly, it wasdecided to set out for Stromness at once,and the Life-boat left at 11.45 p.m., andarrived at two o'clock on the followingafternoon. She had then been absentfrom her station for thirty-six hours,and had travelled 240 miles. Extramonetary awards were made to Cox-swain and Crew.

The maximum speed of the Strom-ness Life-boat on trials was 8-69 knots.It deserves to be recorded that heraverage speed on her journey of 260miles to Vee Skerries and back, carriedout in the worst conditions of weather,was approximately 7 knots, and on herjourney of 240 miles to Mousa andLerwick and back—when she had notto face the same severe winds and seas,but was handicapped by fog during theoutward journey—it was approximately8J knots, that is to say almost her maxi-mum speed.

A Motor Life-boat for Lerwick.Before these wrecks occurred the

Institution had decided to establish a

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Life-boat Station in the Shetlands, thishaving been made possible by thesystem of coast communication whichhas recently been organised in theShetlands by the Board of Trade.Only a boat of the most powerful typewould be suitable to safeguard an areamade up of a widely-scattered group ofmany islands, and the boat laid down isthe Barnett Twin-Screw type, the sameas the Stromness boat. She is 51 feetby 13 feet 6 inches, with a displacementof 26£ tons. She will be driven by two60 h.p. engines, giving her a speed ofover 8| knots, and she will carry enough

petrol to be able to travel 176 miles ather cruising speed of 7£ knots withoutrefuelling. She will have 160 aircasesand eight watertight compartments. Shewill be provided with a cabin, with seatsfor ten people, and in rough weather shewill be able to take 100 people on board.

This boat should be ready in July ofthis year, and she will be stationed atLerwick, where Mr. Kay, who so greatlydistinguished himself in the attemptsto rescue the crew of the Ben Doran, hadalready accepted the position of Hono-rary Secretary of the Station at the endof last year.

A Fine Service at Flamborough.A fine service was carried out by the

Flamborough No. 1 Pulling and SailingLife-boat, Forester, on April 28th, whenshe rescued the crew of sixteen of theAdmiralty fuelling steamer Rosa. Inthe early hours of the morning, in adense fog, the Rosa had run ashore rightunder the Flamborough cliffs. Thecrew attempted to launch a boat, butshe was smashed against the side of thesteamer, and when the Life-boat arrived,she found that heavy seas were sweepingover the vessel, and that her crew hadtaken refuge on the bridge. In thedarkness and the heavy seas, it was verydifficult for the Coxswain to get along-side the wreck, the Life-boat herselfbeing continually swept by the seas, andin grave danger of being smashed bythe ship, which was labouring heavily;

but, in spite of these dangers, the wholecrew were rescued.

The Lords Commissioners of theAdmiralty sent an expression of " theiradmiration and appreciation of thegallant work of the Flamborough Life-boat," and of their gratitude to Cox-swain and Crew; and the Institutionhas awarded its Thanks inscribed onVellum to Coxswain Richard Chadwick,and made extra monetary awards tohim and the Crew. It has also made aspecial presentation to Miss BessieBayes, daughter of the Honorary Secre-tary of the Station, for encouraging theLife-boat Crew and entertaining theshipwrecked men. She helped to launchthe boat, wading out into the sea ; wason the shore with hot coffee to meet herwhen she returned; and looked afterthe Rosa's crew while they were atFlamborough.

Re-opening of Shoreham Station.THE Station at Shoreham, Sussex,which was established in 1865, wasclosed in 1924, owing to the siltingup of the harbour. Up to that dateits Life-boats had rescued forty lives.Since 1924 there has been a great im-provement in the conditions of theharbour, and the harbour-bar has dis-appeared. In these circumstances itwas decided to re-open the Station and

to place a Motor Life-boat there. Theboat chosen was a 40-feet Watson boatwith a 40 h.p. engine, which had beenbuilt in 1918 for Weymouth, andreplaced there by another Watson boatlast year.

The new Life-boat arrived at Shore-ham on 19th October. The shipping inthe harbour and buildings near theharbour were dressed with flags ; there

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was a procession of motor-boats, headedby the Life-boat; and among those whowere present to welcome her were theEarl Winterton, M.P., President of theShoreham Branch; the Mayor of Worth-ing (Alderman W. T. Frost), the Mayorand Mayoress of Brighton (AldermanH. T. Galliers and Mrs. Galliers), theChairman of the Shoreham UrbanCouncil (Mr. A. J. Penney), the Chair-man of the Southwick Urban Council(Mr. G. Gillam, J.P.), Captain the RightHon. the Earl Howe, P.O., C.B.E., V.D.,

R.N.V.R., a member of the Committeeof Management of the Institution; Mr.Harry Hargood, O.B.E., a Vice-Presi-dent of the Institution; Colonel E. LeslieBeves, V.D., J.P., Vice-President of theBranch; Commander A. Williams, R.N.,Harbour Master and Honorary Secretaryof the Shoreham Station, and a detach-ment of the Sussex Division of the RoyalNaval Volunteer Reserve. Since thearrival of the Life-boat, Mr. V. G.North has become Hon. Secretary andCommander Williams Hon. Treasurer.

Coxswain Swan's Broadcast Appeal.A Response of over £750.

ON Sunday, 2nd March, through thekindness of the British BroadcastingCorporation, the Institution was allowedto make a three-minute appeal as " theweek's good cause." This appeal, whichwas sent out from London, was relayedto Daventry, Cardiff, Swansea, Bourne-mouth, Plymouth, Manchester and Bel-fast.

The appeal was made by Mr. John T.Swan, the late Coxswain of the Lowes-toft Life-boat, and a Life-boatmanwith a most distinguished record. Mr.Swan was Coxswain from 1911 until1924. He won the Institution's SilverMedal for gallantry for the rescue of thecrew of the mine-sweeper Condor inNovember, 1914. He won a SecondService Clasp to his Silver Medal for therescue- of nine men from H.M. SloopPomona in September, 1918. In 1922he won the Gold Medal for the rescue ofthe crew of the S.S. Hopelyn. In 1924,the Institution's Centenary Year, he andthe other Gold Medallists of the Institu-tion, were received at BuckinghamPalace by the King, and His Majestypresented to each of them the Medal ofthe Order of the British Empire.

At the suggestion of the InstitutionCoxswain Swan gave, as the appeal, hisown account of the service for which hewon his Gold Medal.

The response was both prompt andgenerous. It brought in over £750.

In recognition of the help on thefinancial side which, in this and other

ways, Mr. Swan has given to theInstitution, he was presented this yearat the Annual Meeting of the Governorsof the Institution with the Gold Pen-dant, which is awarded only for dis-tinguished honorary service to theInstitution in the work of raising funds.The following is Mr. Swan's talk :—•

The Appeal." I think if I tell you about a service

of the Lowestoft Life-boat in October,1922, as I wrote it down at the time inmy Log Book, you will be able to seehow the Life-boats help vessels in dis-tress.

" Late in the afternoon of the 21stOctober, we were called to the help of avessel wrecked on the dangerous ScrobySands, off Yarmouth. She was thesteamer Hopelyn, of Newcastle. On theway to the wreck we sighted the Gorles-ton Sailing Life-boat Eentwell, whichhad been trying/or more than twenty-fourhours to rescue the crew. The Coxswaintold us what a terrible job it had been,and would be, so we took him on boardour boat. It was blowing about as hardas it could, and the sea was just as roughas it could be. It was also pitch dark,and raining hard. We soon saw it washopeless to attempt a rescue until day-light ; so we made for Yarmouth andwaited for day. Next morning, beforeit was light, we put out again, andreached the wreck about six o'clock. Ittook us nearly two hours to travel about

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three miles under motor power. Thatwill show you what sort of a gale it was,and we were battling straight into itsteeth.

" We found the Hopelyn broken inhalves and her iron plates sticking outall jagged just where we had to getalongside, so we stood a good chanceof ripping the planks of the Life-boatopen.

" We let go our anchor and let ourboat fall alongside the Hopelyn by thehelp of the tide, dodging the jaggedplates, open like the jaws of a shark totear us to pieces. There were twenty-four poor fellows in the wireless cabin,which was only 12 feet square. Theyhad been there for thirty-six hours, withthe seas breaking all round them all thetime. We managed to get them all offsafe and sound, and the ship's cat—itwas a black one, too ! It took just tenminutes. I think that was pretty smartwork.

" This was thanks to the splendidMotor-boat Agnes Cross, which theInstitution had stationed at Lowestoft.You have to have the best possible boatsfor that sort of work.

" When the crew whom we had beenable to save were put on dry land again,they gave us three hearty cheers. Tohear those cheers was good enoughthanks for all we had done. SometimesI can hear them still.

" That's the tale of the Hopelyn. It'sonly the sort of thing that the Institu-tion's Life-boats are doing all round thecoast all the time.

" But we don't always succeed. Some-times the winds and seas are too muchfor us, in spite of all we can do. We goout too, knowing that we may not comeback. The men of Rye never came back.

" Now, I'm not asking you to go outin the Life-boat." What I am asking youto do is to help the Institution, whichprovides the whole Service. Remember,every little helps, shillings and pence aswell as pounds.

" The Institution wants your help tobuild more Motor Life-boats. If theGorleston men had had a motor, theywould have rescued the Hopelyn's crewbefore we were called out. They've gotone now. It's the Motor Life-boats we

want. You give us the boats. We'll dothe rest. Don't forget the address :—Royal National Life-boat Institution,

Life-boat House, 22, Charing Cross Road,London, W.C. 2.

And please mark your envelopes ' Wire-less Appeal'."

The Response.The response was immediate and

generous. Altogether the Institutionreceived over 1,700 replies, and the totalamount contributed was £751 4s. 5d.The individual contributions variedfrom ten guineas to threepence, and theycontinued to come in for nearly twomonths after the appeal was made.Nearly 300 of the contributions wereanonymous. In the other cases lettersof thanks were sent. One contributorwrote again, a few weeks later, enclosinga second contribution, and saying : " Ihave sent to several appeals on the wire-less, but have never received a replywhere it seemed to be appreciated asmuch as the one I sent you, so in future,if I have a few shillings to spare, I shallalways send it for your Institution."

The responses came from all parts ofEngland. There were many from Wales,a number from Scotland (although theappeal was not broadcast by theScottish stations), and a number fromIreland. The furthest north came fromPerth and Dundee, and the furthestwest from Sligo and Tipperary. Onecontribution was received from Belgium.

Among those who contributed were" an old pensioner," " the daughter of asea captain," " an invalid of seventy-six," " an invalid of seventy-three, whois bedridden," a woman who sent hergift as a thank-offering because herdaughter had just landed safely in NewZealand; another who had once beennearly shipwrecked; another whoseson's life had been saved by the RamseyLife-boat; another a widow whose onlyson was at sea.

One contributor on the coast, whileactually listening to the appeal, heardthe signals of a ship in distress off BeachyHead. Two more sent their gift inmemory of their father who had beena master in the Merchant Service.Another wrote that she was now

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eighty-five, and though she lived inland,she had never forgotten seeing a brig,laden with tar, coming into Aldeburghon fire, one night in 1863 ; another that,in years gone by, she had seen ninevessels lost in one day from the Scar-borough coast. One anonymous con-

their admiration of the way in whichCoxswain Swan had made his appeal.Here are extracts from a few of theletters received:—

" It is nice to feel that we can be' workers together ' with those who goout in the Life-boat."

By courtesy of]EX-COXSWAIN JOHN T. SWAN, OF LOWESTOFT.

[L.N.A.

(Photographed on board the Life-boat which was stationed at Tottenham Town Hall on Life-boat Day inGreater London, May 20th, 1930.)

tributor sent his cigarette-money for theweek, and a number of contributionswere received from people who werealready subscribers to the Institution.

Extracts from Letters.Many of the gifts came with letters

very touching in their goodwill and in

" We would like you to thank theCoxswain for his touching appeal. Anyone listening to him would be deeplytouched by such an appeal from one ofthe very dear men who risk their livesto save others. May God protect himand all his company."

" I enclose my little bit in honour of

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the dear old man who spoke on Sundaynight."

" One of the best appeals I haveheard. I would like the speaker toknow how very effective it was."

" Two shillings and sixpence for'themost eloquent appeal I have yet heard.I wish it was more."

" I thinlrfew can refuse after hearingthat ' sweet old voice,' making hisappeal."

" In response to the irresistible appealon the wireless last night, I havepleasure in enclosing 10s. I am ashamedto say that I have listened hard-heartedly to a great many appeals madeby a similar means, but the one madelast night was incomparably the bestthat I have ever heard. I hope theresult reaches a magnificent total. Withapologies for the smallness of my con-tribution."

" Enclosed please find 10s. in responseto the appeal so splendidly delivered bythe gentleman last night."

" God bless John Swan of Lowestoftand all like him. Their unselfishnessmakes one ashamed."

" Coxswain Swan's address was splen-did. We could see the man ! "

" What a blessing wireless is to man-kind, when it gives us an opportunity tohear Coxswain Swan speak and enablesus to appreciate, the bravery and self-sacrifice of such men round our coast."

" I enclose a contribution to theappeal made last evening by CoxswainSwan, a fine old English gentleman."

" Coxswain Swan's appeal was mostsplendid. Please say from me howmuch we men unable to do these things—inland men—admire such bravefellows."

" For the Coxswain's appeal. Blesshis honesty and his broad Norfolk,although he is a Suffolk man ! "

" As a Norfolk man I felt I must sendyou a small subscription when I heardthe old language so beautifully renderedby the Lowestoft Coxswain."

Coxswain Swan at Hammersmith.Coxswain Swan again gave the Insti-

tution valuable help by taking part inLondon Life-boat Day on 20th May,and in a special appeal which was madein the cinemas of Hammersmith duringthe week of Life-boat Day, This appealwas personally arranged and carried outby the Mayor of Hammersmith (Coun-cillor E. J. B. Spearing, J.P.). Accom-panied by the Mayor (and on oneoccasion, in the Mayor's absence, byAlderman Claydon), Coxswain Swanvisited eight theatres and cinemas, andat seven of them made the same appealwhich he had made by wireless. Atthese eight cinemas and one other whichCoxswain Swan did not visit, over £72was collected.

Life-boat Broadcasting in Scotland.THROUGH the kind help of the B.B.C.considerable use has been made of thewireless in appealing for the Life-boatService throughout Scotland.

A special Life-boat programme wasgiven from the Glasgow and Aberdeenwireless stations on 18th November.This programme was described by theB.B.C. itself as " one of the moststriking 'feature' programmes" yetbroadcast in Scotland, including as itsspecial feature, a thing which had notbeen done before, a relay of an actualLife-boat launch. The Station chosenwas Montrose, where the Motor Life-

boat John Russell was launched at 8p.m. The broadcast included the actualtelephone conversations between theCoastguard, giving the news of a wreck,and the Honorary Secretary of theStation, and then between the HonorarySecretary, calling out the Life-boat, andthe Head Launcher.

These conversations were followed bythe sounds of the launch itself—theLife-boat leaving the Boat-house on thetrolley; the engine being started ; theboat running down the slipway" andentering the water, and the orders ofCoxswain and Head Launcher. These

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sounds and orders were accompaniedby a commentary by Captain R. L.Hamer, R.N., the District Inspector ofLife-boats.

The programme also included theLife-boat play, Their Business in GreatWaters, written for and presented to theInstitution by Mr. Louis N. Parker.This play, with the permission of theInstitution, the B.B.C. put into theScottish vernacular. The rest of theprogramme consisted of sea-music by theGlasgow Octet, and sea shanties from

the Aberdeen studio sung by the HallRussell Male Voice Choir.

This excellent programme was fol-lowed, three days later, by the broad-cast of the Prince of Wales's address atthe National Life-boat Assembly atEdinburgh on 21st November.

Then, on Sunday, 13th April last,Commander the Hon. A. D. Cochrane,D.S.O., R.N. (Vice-Chairman of theScottish Life-boat Council), broadcastan appeal for the Life-boat Service as" the Week's Good Cause."

Duke of Northumberland's Life-boat EssayCompetition, 1930.

Developments for 1931.THE Duke of Northumberland's Life-boat Essay Competition has now beenheld for ten years. Started in 1918, itwas held in that year and the twofollowing years. In 1921,1922 and 1923no Competition was held owing to thehigh rates of postage and printing, butit was resumed in 1924, as part of theInstitution's centenary celebrations, andhas been held each year since then.

The Competition has been a greatsuccess. Although the number ofschools taking part has only been asmall proportion of the total eligible,the Competition has resulted in somehundreds of thousands of boys and girls,during those ten years, being given anidea "of the history and work of theLife-boat Service. For the successachieved, the Institution is indebted inthe first place to the Education Authori-ties which have given permission for thecompetition to be held, but its chiefdebt of gratitude is to the teachersthemselves. The essays have shownvery clearly how much trouble theyhave taken to instruct their pupils inthe work of the Service.

This year the Institution increasedthe number of Challenge Shields fromsix to eight (dividing the North ofEngland and the South of Englandeach into two Districts), and thenumber of individual Awards from 210to 280. Next year, when the Competi-

tion enters on its second decade, it isproposed to make another and muchmore important development, which itis hoped will lead to many more schoolstaking part in the Competition.

To every school which takes part, theInstitution will present a Certificate tobe awarded by the Headmaster orHeadmistress to the writer of the bestessay in the school. This best essaycan then, if the head teacher wishes, besent in, as at present, for the Inter-SchoolCompetition, for which the Institutionwill continue to present eight ChallengeShields, and, in addition, thirty-fiveindividual prizes in each of the eightDistricts.

It is hoped that as a result of thisdevelopment of the Competition thefew Education Authorities which atpresent refuse their permission will nowallow the Competition to be held, andthat many more head teachers willdecide to take part in it. The fullparticulars of the 1931 Competition willbe sent out to the schools early nextJanuary.

The 1930 Competition.The subject for the 1930 Competition

was " Why I Admire the Li o-boat-man," and 346 more schools too!; partthan in 1929. The number was 1,737as compared with 1,391. In everyDistrict there was an increase, except in

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Ireland and Wales. London comes firstwith 363 schools as compared with 268,but the London District, which beforewas the County Council area, has beenenlarged to include Middlesex, whichwas previously in the Southern District.The South East comes second with 246 ;the North East third with 231; theNorth West fourth with 215 ; the Mid-lands fifth with 204 (as compared with165 last year); the South West sixthwith 184; Scotland seventh with 184(as compared with 103 last year); andIreland and Wales (including Shropshireand Herefordshire) eighth with 143 (ascompared with 179 last year). TheIrish schools competing have fallenfrom 94 to 72, while 57 Welsh schoolscompeted, an increase of one. Only 14schools in Herefordshire and Shropshirecompeted, as compared with 29 lastyear.

Last year, as has already beenmentioned, the North of England andthe South of England each formed asingle District. The whole of the Northshows a notable increase, the number ofcompeting schools being 446 as com-pared with 271. The South also showsan increase, 430 instead of 405, but theSouthern figure still does not comparewith the fine record of 1928, when 728schools in the South of England tookpart in the Competition.

The Ecsays.

In giving a general idea of the essayswe cannot do better than quote fromthe reports of some of the examiners inthe different Districts. The examiner inthe North West of England found adistinct improvement, the general aver-age being higher and the number ofpoor essays smaller. The examiner inthe two South of England Districtsreports : " The writing, with very fewexceptions, was excellent. The essayists,generally speaking, showed very com-mendable constructive ability in sen-tence-making.

" . . . In many instances the imageryused -,'a.s beautifully apposite. Thechild ,joint of view was always apparent,although the guiding mind of theirinstructors was evident throughout."The same examiner gave the following

list of authors quoted: Shakespeare,Banyan, Wordsworth, Dickens, Tenny-son and Conrad, besides many Biblicalquotations.

The examiner in Scotland noted agood many unsuccessful attempts atfine writing, and considered that childrenshould be " warned against attemptingflights of rhetoric beyond their powers."

He also noticed with disaDpointmentthat those who lived on the coast didnot draw on their own observation, andthat their essays " differed in no respectfrom those of children in inland townswho had perhaps never seen the sea,and certainly never seen a Life^-boatlaunched." All the examiners agreedin noting the number of essays which,while showing a good knowledge of theLife-boat Service, were not written onthe subject set for the Competition.

A Tribute to the Teachers.

One of the examiners pays a tributeto the work of the teachers, which it is apleasure to quote and to endorse :

" The whole of the essays reflect verygreat credit on those who have in-structed the competitors. One feltwhile reading these essays that theirteachers were giving evidence of theirown fitness for their work of educatingchildren. . . . They have inculcatedtheir pupils with high ideals and arousedthat keen interest in the work of theRoyal National Life-boat Institutionwhich justifies in the fullest degree theholding of these Competitions."

"Why I Admire the Life-boatman."

There can be no doubt that the boysand girls of the British Isles do admirehim. " I admire him," says one, " inevery shape and form," while anotherconsiders that if you do not admire him,so far from being " a manly human, youare a disgusting, shameful, sneaking typeof animal," which is perhaps just atrifle severe. But children do notmince matters when their heroes arein question.

Many of the essayists go beyondadmiration and love him as well.

" All these fine points and goodqualities of which the Life-boatman issaturated will help to make him ' be-

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loved among mankind.'" Anotheressayist cannot remember ever havingbeen so deeply interested in a subject,or " feeling so filled with such lovelyfeelings when writing before."

"Greater than Hobbs."

One essayist calls the Life-boatman"A story book hero come to life," andanother " Hero of the seven seas andmaster of its nefarious forces." Yetanother considers him " much more ofa hero than any blood-thirsty general."

But perhaps the summit of praisewas reached by the London boy whowrote : " Many English lads place onthe pedestal of hero-worship some greatsportsman like Hobbs or Grimsdell, butsurely the Life-boatman is worth tensuch sportsmen."

The children of Great Britain admirethe Life-boatman for his courage. " Ifeveryone had to vote as to which typeof man is the bravest, I am certain theLife-boatman would be top of the poll."They admire him because he is " gentleand tender towards those he has res-cued," and because " he is the very soulof unselfishness." " His unselfish lovefor others beats anything." " He hasthe spirit of the man who has seen thevalley of the shadow of death, and howblack it is, and yet set his teeth to walkright through."

The Man who can Get Up in the Middleof the Night.

Many essayists particularly admirethe Life-boatman for being able to getup in the middle of the night.

" Many of us find it very hard to getup at 7 a.m. on a winter morning, orvisit the dentist when one has the tooth-ache, but the Life-boatman has to getup in the middle of the night, sometimesin the midst of a blinding snowstorm."

" Not everyone is ready to leave awarm bed and suck up the humours ofa dank morning."

" Would the average citizen," saysanother, " get out of bed in the middleof the night, and in spite of terrible seas,start on a risky journey to save thelives of those on a wreck. Not likely ! "

But the Life-boatman does it will-ingly. " He gets into his oilskins and

rushes out of his warm bed without asmuch as a frown."

"He Never Swanks."His modesty is another quality on

which the writers lay emphasis. " Henever swanks or sticks his nose in theair as if he was somebody great."" They are'not men who like a lot ofpublication, and who like being crownedwith wreaths." They are men who dogreat deeds and then say no more aboutthem, or, as one essayist excellentlysays, " When they come back they havea brief siesta, and the matter is speedilyforgotten." " They willingly risk theirlives," says another, " not to have theirphotos in the paper, but for the benefitof others."

Even under the greatest temptationthe Life-boatman preserves his modesty." The greatest honour for the Life-boatman is to hold converse with H.R.H.the Prince of Wales, and to be praisedby him and to receive a general hand-shake, and to be presented the medalby the Prince is a staggerer. But hedoes not smirk and look down his nose ;he goes quietly back to his home as afisherman and not as a dude or a swank."

Statues in the Park.But though they are modest men

who do not like wreaths, a number ofessayists consider that they ought tohave statues. " I shall like to seestatues of some of these brave menwho have lost their lives occupyingpedestals in the public parks in pre-ference to those who perhaps have notmerited the distinction half so much."

Another goes still further. "In con-clusion, I may say that if statues weredecreed as in ancient Greece and Rometo those who serve their country well,every Life-boatman should have one."

Courage Better than Wealth.Some of the writers have been struck

by the fact that it is not always thebrave who are wealthy. " There areplenty of people making far more moneythan the Life-boatman who never doany heroic deeds like him."

Others, again, have no doubt howthey would choose themselves betweencourage and wealth.

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" I am not afraid to say that I wouldrather have the courage of a Life-boat-man than the fortune of a millionaire."

The Life-boatman's Wife.The Life-boatman's wife has not been

forgotten, and her anxieties and suffer-ing.

" A Life-boatman's wife must be avery heartbroken person."

" Their wives must be willing to letthem go out late at night."

But it is recognized that he must havea wife. " A Life-boatman needs to bemarried, for when he comes home heneeds a warm cup of tea. That is whyhe needs to be married."

A Partner in the League of Nations.

Several writers have realized and wellexpressed the international value of theLife-boat Service, and the men whoman it.

" The Life-boatman has a greatbreadth of vision, and knows no barriersof race or colour."

"Often when I think of the KoyalNational Life-boat Institution, I associ-ate with it the League of Nations, andI think of these two as partners whowill succeed."

" Jesus Christ said, ' Greater lovehath no man than this that he lay downhis life for a friend,' but a man has twiceas much love when he lays down his lifefor a stranger or enemy."

A Rough Exterior but Fond of HisGrandchildren.

There are some quaint attempts tohit off the character and appearance ofthe Life-boatman.

" Although he may have a roughexterior and an unpleasant voice, he isreally a kind, gentle and loving gentle-man ; perhaps he may have a grand-child, and if he has I am quite sure heis passionately fond of it."

" The Life-boatman is like the dogswhich are trained to look for travellerswho have lost their way on the Alps."

" I always imagine a Life-boatman astall, strong, blue-eyed and very deter-mined. With his broad shoulders, longarms, very powerful legs and coarsehands, he does the work of three ordinarymen."

" When all have been saved he setsback for shore, and on the way actsthe part of waiter, and does his best tocheer them up by cramming them withhot food and drink."

Buttons in the Collecting Box.

One or two writers touch on finance,and give excellent advice on the subjectof contributing to the Institution.

" To put buttons in the collecting boxshows disrespect for this service doneby the hard-working Life-boatman."

In connexion with this admirabledictum, it is worthy of note that theInstitution's bankers, who count themoney collected on Life-boat Day inGreater London, have reported that thisyear for the first time they found nobuttons in the boxes. On the otherhand, there was such a diversity offoreign coins that even the money-changers could not identify them all.

Another example, no less admir-able, comes from another essayistwho writes: "I subscribe my pennytowards this noble service. . . . Evenif I don't require the assistance of thesepeople, it makes no difference to mysubscription."

The Best Essay in Great Britain andIreland.

While among the eight essays whichwon the Challenge Shields there wasnone which was of outstanding merit,the judges had no hesitation in awardingthe prize for the best essay in GreatBritain and Ireland to Denis Butler, ofthe Stamshaw Boys' School, Ports-mouth, for his thoughtful, well-balanced,well-written essay. We should like alsoto make special mention of the essay bySydney Perfrement, which won theShield in the South-east of England.Though Sydney Perfrement is stillamong the youngest of the successfulcompetitors, this is the second year inwhich he has been a prize-winner. Lastyear he was seventeenth in the list forthe South of England.

The Winning Schools.The Stamshaw Boys' School, Ports-

mouth, which has the honour of winningnot only the challenge Shield for the

JUNE, 1930.] THE LIFEBOAT. 79

District but the prize for the best essay,has already held a Challenge Shield. Itwon the Southern Shield in 1927. It isalso worthy of note that for the secondyear running the best essay has comefrom the South-west. This year itcomes from a boy in Hampshire. Lastyear it came from a girl in Somer-set.

In London, the Challenge Shield hasbeen won for the first time by a Hamp-stead school. In the North-west ofEngland, a Birkenhead school has beensuccessful, and in the North-east a Fileyschool. This is the first time that Fileyhas won a Shield. In the Midlands itis won for the first time by a Coventryschool, and in the South-east of Englandfor the first time by a Croydon school.In Scotland a school in the Orkneys haswon it. The Orkneys, in fact, continuetheir conspicuous success in the Competi-tion. An Orkney school won the Shieldin 1928. Last year an Orkney schoolwas runner-up for the Shield, which waswon by a school in the Shetlands, and theOrkneys won seven out of the thirty-five Certificates in Scotland this year.The Orkneys, besides winning the Shieldthis year, have won four Certificates.The northern Islands are carrying allbefore them in Scotland, and the schoolsof the mainland must lopk to theirlaurels. In Ireland and Wales, theLakefield Girls' School, Llanelly, has thehigh honour of winning the ChallengeShield for the second year in succession,and if it should succeed in winningit next year, will have the right toretain it.

Honours Divided between Boys and Girls.The honours are fairly divided be-

tween boys and girls. A boy has wonthe prize for the best essay, but girlshave won five of the eight ChallengeShields, and of the 280 prize-winners,145 are girls and 134 boys.

The Awards.Denis Butler, as the writer of the best

essay, will be presented with a copy ofthe five-guinea edition of " Britain'sLife-boats," by Major A. J. Dawson,signed by the Prince of Wales. Eachof the other seven who head the lists forthe Districts will receive a copy of theordinary edition of " Britain's Life-boats " and a Certificate. The remain-ing 271 boys and girls in the lists willeach be presented with a Certificate.The name of the winner in each districtwill be inscribed on the District ChallengeShield, and the School will hold theShield for a year. Each of these eightschools will also receive, as a permanentrecord of its success, a copy of theCertificate awarded to the pupil.

Our Thanks to the Teachers.We have already referred to the

Institution's debt to the teachers, butwe should like to offer them again ourvery cordial thanks for their interest andco-operation, and at the same time toexpress our hope that the developmentswhich will be made next year will havetheir hearty support, and lead to a greatmany more schools entering for theCompetition.

Below will be found the complete list ofprize-winners, followed by the best essay.

List of Successes in the Essay Competition.London District (County Council Area and Middlesex).

Name.

Elaine Bollard •Myf anwy Wilding .Iris Speller .Edna Cann .F. Scatter . . .Albert Tucker . .William John Glover

Frederick SloaneViolet Hall . . .

Age.

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School.

Emmanuel Girls' and Infant School, 101, Mill Lane, N.W. 6.Kilburn Park L.C.C. School, Willesden, N.W. 6.St. Jude's Girls' School, Mildmay Park, N. 1.Dudden Hill Girls' School, N.W. 10.Warple Way L.C.C. Boys' School, Wandsworth.St. Mary's Arragon Road Boys' School, Twickenham.The Timbercroft L.C.C. Boys' School, Flaxton Road,

S.E. 18.Vernon Square L.C.C. School, King's Cross, W.C. 1.Royal Soldiers' Daughters' Home School, 67, Rosslyn Hill,

Hampstead.

so THE LIFEBOAT. [JUNE, 1930.LIST OF SUCCESSES— LONDON DISTRICT— continued.

Name. Age. School.

Connie Vowell . . . . | 13|Joseph Fuller . . . . j 13}Frank Willmot . . . . 12}Violet Foster . . . 13}Alfred Buckingham . . 11 £ ;Albert Fordham . . . 13} i

Joan Evalyn Baldwin . . 12}Louie Bowles . . . . 13

Kate Shaere . . . . 13}James Robert Carter . . 13}Gertie Muscovitch . . . 13}Blossom Le Fevre . . . 11Bay Symonds . . . . 8

R, Turp ' 1 1

Bessie Andrews . . . . 1 3

Molly Stone . . 13|

Lilian Ralph . . . . 12|Lilian Hutchings . . . ; 13 JGladys Whiteley . . . 13}

Olive Hissey . . . . 13Violet Brett 14}Stephen Cummings . . . 13JFlorence Cant . . . . 1 3 }

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Name. Age.

Alice Scotter . . . . 13 JAnnie Armitage . . . . 13JGeorge Newham . . . . 14JJohn Hunter 13J

Reginald Kenneth Forster . 14 JHarold Goldberg . . . ; 13J

William Adamson . . . is|Walter Smithwhite . . . j 13JMary Dixon . . ; 13A

John Crutchley . . . . 14JDoreen Bertie . . . . 13Eric Davies . . . . 13J

Emma Barlow . . . . 14Margaret Henderson . . 13JAlbert Arras Kime . . . 13JJames Ferguson . . . . 13i

John Teague 13 J

Albert Smith. . . . . ' 13|Joseph Hodgson . . . . 12JRosamund Todd . . . 13JHarold Pearson . . . . 14DonatoRiella . . . . 1 4

Christohurch Girls' School, Cancell Road, S.W. 9.Percy Road L.C.C. School, Willesden, N.W. 6.Ivydale Road Boys' L.C.C. School, Nunhead.Middle Row School, North Kensington.Waldron Road L.C.C. School, Wandsworth.Cave Road Boys' School, Plaistow, E. 13.Council School, Barrow Hill Eoad, N.W. 3.St. Stephen's Mixed School, Jerrard Street, Lewisham,

S.E. 13.Dingle Lane Girls' School, Poplar, E. 14.St. James' School, Muswell Hill, N. 10.Myrdle Street School, Commercial Road, E.Hague Street Girls' School, Bethnal Green.South Grove Girls' School, Mile End, E. 3.The Old Palace Girls' School, Bromley-by-Bow, E. 3.Campsbourne Girls' School, Hornsey, N. 8.St. Stephen's Mixed School, Jerrard Street, Lewisham,

S.E. 13.Bridge Road Girls' School, Willesden, N.W. 10.The Whittington L.C.C. School, Highgate Hill, N. 19.Bartram's Roman Catholic School, 238, Haverstock Hill,

N.W. 3.Maidstone Street L.C.C. Girls' School, Shorediteh, E. 2.Effra Parade Girls' School, Brixton, S.W. 2.Credon Road Girls' School, Rotherhithe New Road,

S.E. 16.Crouch End Girls' School, Park Road, N. 8.Holy Trinity Central Girls' School, Russell Place, S.W. 1.Holy Trinity Senior Mixed School, Bridge Street, E. 3.Daubeney Road Girls' School, Clapton Park, E. 5.

TH-EAST OF ENGLAND.

School.

Church of England School, Scarborough Road, Filey, York*.Crookes Endowed Girls' School, Crookes, Sheffield.Scarborough Friarage Senior Boys' School, Scarborough.Christ Church Boys' School, North Shields, Northumber-

land.Harehills Council School, Leeds.Cowper Street Council School, Leeds.Oswin Avenue Girls' Council School, Doncaster.Welbeck Street Boys' Council School, Castleford, Yorks.Mortimer Road Boys' School, South Shields, Durham.Western Girls' School, Penman Street, North Shields,

Northumberland.Hugh Bell Boys' Central School, Middlesbrough.Wheatley Girls' School, Doncaster.Council School, Thurnscoe, near Rotherham, Yorks.Marton Grove Senior Boys' School, Middlesbrough.Braithwell Council School, Rotherham, Yorks.Holy Island School, Holy Island, Northumberland.Oswin Avenue Boys' Council School, Doncaster.Hauxley Radclifie Council School, RadcliSe, Morpeth,

Northumberland.Western Boys' School, Penman Street, North Shields,

Northumberland.Wheatley Boys' School, Doncaster.Coxlodge Council School, Gosforth, Northumberland.Austerfield Council School, near Bawtry, Yorks.St. John's National School, Goole, Yorks.St. Bede's Boys' School, South Shields, Durham.

JUNE, 1930.] THE LIFEBOAT. 81LIST OF SUCCESSES— NORTH-EAST OF ENGLAND— continued.

Name.

Charles Harold Hickman .James Dowse . . . .Maurice WedgewoodEvelyn Leannount .William Garroway .James William Churlish

Harry Richards . . . .

Thomas Owens . . . .Joan Sherborne . . . .Elizabeth Henderson

Name.

Winnie Knaggs . . . .

Albert Stanley Kelly . .

Janie Strickland . . . .Kenneth Campbell .Robert W. Molyneux .Annie Brundrett

Heddal Murphy . . . .Walter Fletcher . . . .Dorothy Slack . . . .Pearl Ellam .Winifred BrownSidney Rothwell

Ernald Harvey . . . .Dorothy Travis . . . .A m y Walmsley . . . .Arthur A . Golds . . . .

Will Kelly . . . .Margaret PicklesVictor^Fairclough .

Frank SwiftDaisy Brown . . . .Horace Phillips . . . .Gladys Davies . . . .John McBride . . . .Marion Moorhouse .Stanley Parr . . . .Alexander MooreSylvia Costain . . . .

Catherine Priestnell.E . Eric Purser . . . .George Johnson . . . .

Name.

George DueGilbert William Southway .Dora M. Lee . . . .

Age.

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School.

Endowed Boys' School, Sherburn-in-Elmet, Yorks.Eastern Boys' School, North Shields, Northumberland.Victoria Road Senior Boys' School, Middlesbrough.Baring Street Girls' School, South Shields, Durham.Senior Mixed School, Ryhope, Durham.Wingate Council School, Senior Boys' Department,

Durham.Langley Park Council Boys' School, Durham.The Council School, Worsborough Dale, near Barnsley,

Yorks.Bowers Allerton Council School, Woodlesford, near Leeds.Wingate Road School, Armley, Leeds.Sugley Church of England School, Lemington, Northum-

berland.

PH-WEST OF ENGLAND.

School.

Our Lady's Girls' School, Cavendish Street, Birkenhead,Cheshire.

Demesne Boys' School, Douglas, Isle of Man.St. Werburgh's Girls' School, Birkenhead, Cheshire.Central Girls' School, Egremont, Cumberland.Clint Road Council School, Liverpool.St. George's Church of England School, Everton, Liverpool.Chancel Lane Church of England School, Wilmslow,

Cheshire.St. Francis Xavier's Senior Girls' School, Liverpool.Claughton Higher Grade School, Birkenhead, Cheshire.The Central School for Girls, Macclesfield, Cheshire.The Parade School, Hoylake, Cheshire.Wilmslow Modern School, Cheshire.Minor Street Council School, Failsworth, Manchester.Wilmslow Modern School, Cheshire.Alder Grange School, Rawtenstall, Rossendale, Cheshire.St. Thomas' Girls' School, Pendleton, Lancashire.Springfield Senior School, Sale, Cheshire.St. George's Church of England School, Macclesfield,

Cheshire.Rushen Central Classes, Port St. Mary, Isle of Man.Duke Street Council School, Chorley, Lancashire.St. Augustine's Council School, Liverpool.Clifton Council School, near Manchester.Springfield Senior School, Sale, Cheshire.Northway Council School, Wavertree, Liverpool.Broadgreen Boys' School, Liverpool.Bold Heath Church of England School, Lancashire.Maryport National School, Cumberland.St. Simon's School, Russell Street, Liverpool.Boys' Central School, Macclesfield, Cheshire.St. Anne's Church of England School, Stanley, Liverpool.Rushen School, Port St. Mary, Isle of Man.Crompton Central School, Shaw, Lancashire.Lapstone Road Girls' School, Millom, Cumberland.Seedley Council School, Salford.Tiber Street Junior Council School, Liverpool.

MIDLANDS.

School.

Spon Street Boys' School, Coventry.Parson Street Senior Mixed School, Bedminster, Bristol.Breadsall Church of England School, Derbyshire.

82 THE LIFEBOAT. [JUNE, 1930.LIST OF SUCCESSES— MIDLANDS— continued.

Name.

Vera Bromley . . . .

Jack Greenland . . . .Thomas Bradley.

Septimus Neave . . . .Harry Travers . . . .

Thomas BirdGeorge Miller . . . .

Barbara Cobb . . . .W. R . Norfolk . . . .Martin Walsh . . . .Sylvia E. DodworthFred WardHarry JonesRichard Rowell . . . .L . Mountford . . . .

Joseph Arthur Hill .Maud E. May . . . .Marjorie Hann . . . .

Ivy Gilbert

Mollie Weaver . . . .Vera Thompson . . . .Nellie Preston . . . .

Dorothy Allen . . . .Kathleen Walker . . .

Winnie Sanders . . . .W. Rodney Sanders.Nellie Hood

Name.

Sydney Pert rement •Ernest W. Geltens . . .

Harry Lainson . . . .Peggy Watson . . . .Clifford Marjoram .Freda Hawes . . . .Reggie Scott . . . .Rosie May Ridley .

Donald MackrowAlan C. Savjlle . . . .Gladys M. Ellis . . . .Edgar Gladwell . . . .Eileen Whitby . . . .

Doris BlythNora L. Williams .Cyril I . Newton . . . .

Age.

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Florence Mixed School, Longton, Stoke-on-Trent.Eastwood Vale Girls' Council School, Hanley, Stoke-on-

Trent.Mina Road Council School, Bristol.Clarence Street Boys' Council School, Hanley, Stoke-on-

Trent.Wesleyan School, Coxhill, Lines.Dresden Church of England Boys' School, Longton, Stoke-' ' on-Trent.High Street Senior Boys' School, Tunstall, Stoke-on-Trent.St. Nicholas with St. Leonard's Mixed School, Bristol.Grove Senior School, Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent.Hotwells Girls' Council School, Bristol.Mapperley Plains Council School, Nottingham.Council School, Tuxford, Newark, Notts.Mapperley Plains Council School, Nottingham.The Council School, Chilvers Coton, Warwickshire.Alma Street Boys' School, Birmingham.Epperstone Church of England School, Notts.Grove School, Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent.Netherfield Lane Council School, near Mansfield, Notts.The Council School, Malvern Link, Worcestershire.Old Whittington Council School, Chesterfield, Derbyshire.St. Mary Redcliffe Girls' School, Ship Lane, Redcliffe,

Bristol.Shelton Church of England Mixed School, Stoke-on-Trent.St. Patrick's Church of England School, Highgate Street,

Birmingham.Blue Coat Girls' School, Walsall, Staffs.Brampton Senior Girls' School, Chesterfield.Senior Girls' School, Alfreton, Derbyshire.Sheltou Church of England School, Stoke-on-Trent.Church of England School, Wigstou Magna, near Leicester.Middleton-by-Wirksworth Church of England School,

Middleton, near Derby.St. Paul's School, Mount Pleasant, Stoke-on-Trent.Rowington Church of England School, near Warwick.Amington School, Tamworth, Staffs.

TH-EAST OF ENGLAND.

School.

Rectory Manor Boyi' School, West Croydon, Surrey.Alexandra Senior Mixed School, Judge Street, Watford,

Herts.Upper Seeding Council School, West Sussex.Piccott's End Council School, Hemel Hempstead, Herts.Tannington School, Woodbridge, Suffolk.Girls' Council School, Broadstairs, Kent.Central School, Melton Constable, Norfolk.Alexandra Senior Mixed School, Judge Street, Watford,

Herts.Church of England School, Sandy, Bedfordshire.Highlands Junior School, Ilford, Essex.The Reedham Orphanage, Purley, Surrey.Haversham Council School, near Wolverton, Bucks.Senior Council School, Stowmarket, Suffolk.The Reedham Orphanage, Purley, Surrey.Christchurch Girls' School, Ilford, Essex.The Portland Boys' School, South Norwood, Surrey.Cleveland Girls' School, Ilford, Essex.Northbourne Church of England School, Eastry, Kent.Mortlake Central School, Mortlake, S.W. 14.

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LIST OF SUCCESSES— SOUTH-EAST OF ENGLAND— continued.

Name.

Kathleen R. Hitchings . .Ronald Chilton . . . .Norman Bagaley

Edith DickerPhyllis Norris . . . .Nellie SmithMarie LarterFlorence GunnEileen Webb . . .Leslie WestgateWinifred West . . .

Annie Piggins . . . .Gwendoline Sirey .Robin 0. Day . . . .

Age.

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Downshall Road Girls' School, Seven Kings, Essex.Church of England School, Beaconsfield, Bucks.Council School, Olney, Bucks.Roger Ascham School, Billet Road, E. 17.East Sutton School, Maidstone, Kent.Church of England School, Beaconsfield, Bucks.Mission Grove Senior Girls' School, Walthamstow, Essex.Girls' Central School, Ipswich, Suffolk.Church of England Mixed School, Burnham, Bucks.Goodmayes School, Castleton Road, Goodmayes.Hospital Boys' School, Great Yarmouth.Longwick Church of England School, Princes Risborough,

Bucks.Capel-le-Ferne School, Folkestone, Kent.Church of England School, Cringleford, Norwich, Norfolk.Bromley Road Senior Mixed School, Beokenham, Kent.Church of England School, Bilsington, Ashford, Kent.

TH-WEST OF ENGLAND.

Name. Age. School.

*Deni» Butler . . . .Violet M. Badder . . .Verdun Friend . . . .Percy Pencard . . . .Douglas Bidmead .Betty Chalkley . . . .Kenneth Sait . . . .James H. ReynoldsEdward Durant . . . .Sheila FoxHarold K. Mills . . . .Marjorie E. Gwyther .Muriel ConstableMarjorie Allen . . . .Margaret Coates

Horace A very . . . .Edwin Singer . . . .Marjorie Cook . . . .

Fernley Small . . . .Gwen TrenchardHetty Hiscock . . . .Betty E. Pope . . . .Sydney I. NorthcottJoan Walkling . . . .Edith Dart . . .W. R. Williams . . . .Vera May HeywoodHugh Martin . . . .Gwendoline Troake . .Percy CarpenterMary Arnold . . . .Kate HextKathleen Turner

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Stamshaw Boys' School, Stamshaw, Portsmouth.St. John Baptist Girls' School, Frome, Somerset.Furzeham Boys' School, Brixham, Devon.Victoria Road Boys' School, Dartmouth, Devon.St. Mary's Roman Catholic School, Barley Street, Bath.Courthill Council School, Parkstone, Dorset.Clarence Square Council School, Gosport, Hants.Sithney Mixed School, Helston, Cornwall.Fratton Boys' School, Portsmouth, Hants.Senior Girls' School, West Twerton, Bath.Drayton Road Council School, Portsmouth, Hante.Holy Trinity School, Taunton, Somerset.Chittlehamholt School, Umberleigh, Devon.Ludlow Road Girls' School, Itchen, Hants.Church Senior Mixed School, Ilfraoombe, Devon.Clutton Council School, Bristol.Paradise Road Senior Boys' School, Plymouth, Devon.Courthill Road Council School, Parkstone, Dorset.Littleham and Landcross School, Bideford, Devon.Blackpool School, Newton Abbot, Devon." Drake's Charity " School, East Budleigh, Devon.St. Denys Girls' School, Southampton, Hants.Ascupart Girls' School, Southampton, Hants.Church Street Girls' School, Landport, Hants.Frederick Street School, Plymouth, Devon.Bovington Camp School, Wareham, Dorset.Furzeham Girls' School, Brixham, Devon.Witheridge Church School, Crediton, Devon.Loxbeare Church of England School, near Tiverton, Devon.Lesoudjack Boys' School, Penzajxce, Cornwall." Drake's Charity " School, East Budleigh, Devon.New Road Boys' School, Portsmouth, Hants.Baltonsborougt School, Glastonbury, Somerset.High-week Senior Mixed School, Newton Abbot, Devon.Francis Avenue Girls' School, Portsmouth, Hants.

for the best essay in Great Britain and Ireland.

THE LIFEBOAT. [JUNE, 1930.

LIST OF SUCCESSES—continued.SCOTLAND.

Name. Age. School.

Elizabeth Copland • • •Jean ReidJenny SangsterCharles A . Fyfe . . . .Annie M. R. LittlejohnEdward Stewart.Jessie Ann GroatJames Duncan . . . .Wilhelmina Roberta HarousPeggy HallMinnie Heatley . . . .Ina RamageWilliam McLarenIsa McKenna . . . .

Cathie McLennanJohn Lappin . . . .

Walter McAusland .E v a Johnston . . . .Ronald Knott . . . .Cissie F. Armstrong.Archibald Black . . .Cyril Squires . . . .Ida KempJack W . Mullen . . . .Jane Mitchell . . . .Isa PageJohn RobbSarah SmithWilliam Chisholm .Peter W. Shearer . . .Edith Robinson . . . .Samuel Leask . . . .James Morgan . . . .Joan Johnston . . . .Joey Gow

13 Brims Public School, Mehetter, Orkney.11J High Primary School, Kirkcaldy, Fife.13J Public School, Whitburn, West Lothian.14 Tarlaud Public School, Aberdeenshire.14 Tarland Public School, Aberdeenshire.13J Cleland Roman Catholic School, Lanarkshire.12 ] Papa Westray Public School, Orkney.14 j Monquhitter Public School, by Turriff, Aberdeenshire.13 ; South School, Eday, Orkney.14 Sullom Public School, Shetland.14 Bonnington Road School, Leith.13J Lamington Public School, Lanarkshire.14J Beauly Public School, Inverness.13 St. Augustine's Roman Catholic School, Langloan, Coat-

bridge, Lanarkshire.14J West End School, Elgin.13 St. Augustine's Roman Catholic School, Langloan, Coat-

bridge, Lanarkshire.13J St. George's Road Advanced Central School, Glasgow, C. 3.14 St. George's Road Advanced Central School, Glasgow, C. 3.12 Public School, Torryburn, Fife.13J Catrine Public School, Ayrshire.14J Small Isles Public School, Jura, Argyllshire.13 Battlefield School, Langside, Glasgow.14 Orphir Public School, Orkney.14 ! Whiffle! Primary School, Coatbridge, Lanarkshire.14 | Letham Public School, Angus.11 I Dunnikier School, Kirkcaldy, Fife.12£ High Primary School, Kirkcaldy, Fife.13J ! Frotoft Public School, Rousay, Orkney.12 Stoneyburn Public School, West Lothian.14J ; West End School, Elgin.13J Copeland Road School, Glasgow, S.W. 1.14 Public School, Scalloway, Shetland.11 Dunnikier School, Kirkcaldy, Fife.12 ' St. Margaret's School, Gallowgate, Aberdeen.13J Melness Public School, by Lairg, Sutherlandshire.

IRELAND AND WALES(Including Shropshire and Herefordshire).

Name. Age.

Renee Harries •Albert James MclntoshBrigid McShane .

Gerald O'Conuell . .Mary A. Tannahill . .Bernard Taylor . .Fred G. Lyte . . .Norman FrancisHoward SalmonAgnes F a y . . . .David Hodges .

Mollie Tivenan .Kathleen V. RobertsPatrick Moran .William J. Davies .

Teddy Power . .

HI13i13J

1414i14J14141313t9

14J131413

11

School.

Lakefield Road Girls' School, Llanelly, Carmarthenshire.Model School, Coleraine, Co. Londonderry.Glenmornau Public Elementary School, Artigarvan,

Strabane, Tyrone.Talbotstowu School, Kiltegan, Co. Wicklow.Model School, Coleraine, Co. Londonderry.Lower Bullingham Roman Catholic School, Hereford.Coalisland Public Elementary School, Co. Tyrone.Sketly Council School, Swansea, Glamorganshire.Council School, Abersychan, Mou.St. Malachy's Girls' National School, Dundalk, Co. Louth.Drumtullagh Public Elementary School, Stranocum, Co.

Antrim.Kiltycreighton National School, Boyle, Co. Roscommon.Cockshutt Church of England School, Salop.Derradda National School, Carrowbeg, Westport, Co. Mayo.Penwauu Council School, Capel Evan, Newcastle Emlyn,

Carmarthenshire.Butlerstown, Co. Waterford.

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LIST OF SUCCESSES—IRELAND AND WALES-continued.

Name. Age. School.

Anne M. DaviesWilliam Boyd . . .Anna F. SweeneyBrinley B. Bennett .Thomas G. KirkpatrickWilliam McMullan . .

Kitty McParlin . . .

Hannah MurphyIsobel Paisley

Frank'A. Drayton .Edith Williams . . .James McComisky .

Gwilym Griffith . . .Howard Davies .John McMurray

Maurice W. Judge .

Nora K. Forbes . . .David G. Davies

13 Burry Port Girls' School, Carmarthenshire.14 Limavady Public Elementary School, Co. Londonderry.13 St. John's School, Newcastle, Belfast.14 , St. Helen's Boys' School, Swansea, Glamorganshire.14 | Annalong Public Elementary School, Annalong, Co. Down.14J Tullybane Public Elementary School, Stranocum P.O.,

: Belfast.Wastelands Public Elementary School, Kichhill, Co.

Armagh.Old Leighton National School, Co. Carlow.

14 Public Elementary School, Kilnaslee Donaghmore, Co.Tyrone.

Cwmffrwdoerf Boys' School, Pontnewynydd, Mon.11 Parcyshun School, Ammanford, Carmarthenshire.13J Derrykerrib Public Elementary School, Portadown, Co.

Armagh.14 j Holyhead National School, Anglesey.11 Jersey Marine Schools, near Briton Ferry, Glamorgan.14| St. John's Boys' Public Elementary School, Colinward St.,

Belfast.14J ! Belfast Model Schools, Easton Avenue, Cliftonville,

! Belfast.11 i Knockminna National School.12J • Adpar Council School, Newcastle Emlyh, Carmarthenshire.

The Best Essay.By DENIS BDTLEB (aged 14J), of Stamshaw Boys' School, Stamshaw, Portsmouth.

Why I admire the Life-boatman.WHEN we consider the higher qualities withwhich men are endowed, we find that we admirethem most of all when they are used for thehighest purpose.

It is sometimes not so difficult to be brave,or cheerful, or faithful, when we know forcertain that courage is sure to bring itsreward; or that a good heart will have acertain recompense, or that loyalty will provejustified. But how much harder it must be toventure our whole lives with no certainty ofgain, certainly no reward, and a fair chance oflosing in the end, all we have staked.

This is what the Life-boatman does, so faras I can see, and that is, firstly, why I admirehim more than I admire the picturesque heroesof battle and adventure. These latter havetheir thrills, their discoveries and applause,but the hardy fisherman goes out with noexcitement into the unknown. He knows toowell what are the dangers into which he iscalled, he knows also that what was stolenfrom the sea at one time may well be claimedthis. Secondly, only those who live on andnear the sea ever really know anything of it.A storm at sea ; a wreck ; a vessel in distress ;a relative on the ocean, these cannot mean somuch to dwellers far inland as they mean tosailors and the people of the coasts.

And so the people who live in the countrycannot visualise either what hazardous risksthe Life-boatman takes when he launches intothe deep. So his work remains admired and

understood by only a part of these for whomhe works; perhaps this in itself would notmatter, but people never give their earnesthelp or their sympathy where they do notwholly understand. So I admire him becausehe has not perhaps with him the understandingand real help of the whole of his debtors.Thirdly, the Life-boat service is whollyvoluntary. Perhaps it is the only voluntaryservice whose servants are really efficient,since they still work at their expert tasks, forvolunteer firemen or amateur policemen wouldnot quench many fires or solve many mysteries.

I should be sorry if the Institution everbecame a State or professional thing, for thenits highest quality would be lost. Again, theexperiment of the State Life-boat service doesnot seem to have been a success, at least infour countries. So I admire the Life-boatmanagain because his work or duty does not callhim to his danger, like the soldier's or fireman's,but his motive is the forgetting of himself inservice to those who need his help. Further,he has accomplished his task in real fact;therefore I admire his skill.

It cannot be easy to save lives every weekof the year, and the eleven alternatives meandeath almost certainly. There are tales of thewonderful handling of apparatus and boatsby Life-boatmen that need sailors to appreciatethe skill shown by these men. Surely ifpeople who travel on the seas could think ofthe things from which they are protected by

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the Life-boatmen, those alone could provideample funds for the best possible boats andgear for them !

Perhaps in years to come a small tax may

be imposed on each shipping-ticket, so thatevery traveller who might have to claim thehelp of the Life-boatman shall help in his ownpreservation.

Bridlington Memorial Service.ON 10th February, 1871, an unusuallysevere gale burst upon the North-Eastcoast of England, and at Bridlingtonthere was the terrible spectacle of nofewer than seventeen ships ashore atthe same time, rapidly breaking up.There were, at that time, two Life-boatsat Bridlington, a 32-feet self-rightingLife-boat stationed there by the Insti-tution, and a smaller boat, not self-righting, locally built and locally owned,which was not considered suitable forwork in a heavy sea.

Both Life-boats were launched, anddid most gallant work. The Institu-tion's Life-boat rescued three crews,and then for two hours was strugglingunsuccessfully to reach a vessel whichin the end turned completely over, withthe loss of her whole crew. By this timethe Life-boatmen were so exhaustedthat some of them had to be carried upfrom the boat.

Meanwhile, the small Life-boat hadrescued five crews. She had then putout again to the help of two morevessels, but in getting alongside of themshe was capsized, and six of her crewwere drowned.

The record of this terrible day wasthat five crews were rescued and six of

the rescuers lost their lives. Both forits glory and its tragedy that dayin 1871 has never been forgotten inBridlington.

It deserves, in fact, to be remembered,in the history of the Life-boat Service,with the day at Whitby in 1861, when,after saving the crews of no fewer thansix vessels, the exhausted Life-boatmenput out for a seventh time ; the boatcapsized ; all but one were drowned;and then, when yet another vessel droveashore, another Crew came forward atonce, manned an old Life-boat, andwent to the rescue.

Each year a procession and memorialservice are held at Bridlington in honourof the six men who lost their lives. Inthis tribute to the dead the whole towntakes part, but this year a wider tributewas paid. The service was broadcast,and both sound films and silent filmswere taken of the procession. Thus,thousands who have never been toBridlington, heard the story told of thatday of courage and sacrifice, and didhonour to the memory of the gallantmen who risked their lives, and the sixwho lost them, sixty-nine years ago, inwhat is still called in Bridlington " theGreat Gale."

Centenaries of Life-boat Stations.Presentation of Vellums signed by the Prince of Wales.

THBEE presentations of Centenary Vel-lums to stations have taken place sincelast summer—at Sunderland and Hartle-pool last October, and at Newhaven inApril of this year. The total of suchVellums presented is now thirty-three.

Each Vellum is signed by the Princeof Wales and bears a record expressingthe Institution's appreciation of thevoluntary work of the Officers andCommittee and of the devotion andcourage of the Life-boat Crew.

The number of lives rescued and ofmedals awarded (as given in the follow-

ing reports) is up to the date of theceremony, but it is not in every casepossible to give the total of lives fromthe date of the establishment of theStation, as the early records are notalways complete. The medals are ineach case all medals awarded to Life-boatmen and others from the foundationof the Institution in 1824.

Sunderland, Durham.

Sunderland is mentioned in the firstAnnual Report of the Institution, pub-lished in 1825, in a list of places at

A STORMY DAY AT BRTOLINGTON,Qptober 28th, 1929.

The Life-Saving Apparatus ready foraction.

On the left is a line-throwing gun, mounted on a[carnage. The man next to it is carrying a spare line

and projectile. On the right is a cliff ladder.The 'Fishing-smack Fortanatu*, which

tank after striking the pier.'

The Life-boat puts out.

By courtesy of\Waves breaking on the sea-wall.

[The " YorkMre Herald."

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which Life-boats were maintained bylocal bodies or private individuals, butof the early days of the Station theInstitution has no record. The Institu-tion took it over in 1865, and sincethen there have been at Sunderland,at various times, seven Life-boat Sta-tions. Of these only the Motor Life-boat Station, established in 1911, nowremains. The first Motor Life-boat wasthe J. McConnel Hussey, which hadpreviously been stationed at Folkestoneand Tynemouth. This boat is of his-toric interest, for she was the firstexperimental Motor Life-boat in theInstitution's Fleet. She was built in1893 as a Pulling and Sailing Life-boat,and in 1904 she was converted into aMotor Life-boat, being fitted with a12 h.p. Fay and Bowen two-cyclemotor, which gave her a speed of 6knots. She remained at Sunderlanduntil 1914. In 1918 the present MotorLife-boat, the Henry Vernon, previouslystationed at Tynemouth, was trans-ferred to Sunderland. Sunderland hashad altogether fifteen Life-boats, in-cluding the present Motor Life-boat, andthey have rescued 187 lives since 1865.Four Silver Medals have been awardedto Life-boatmen and others.

The presentation of the Vellum wasmade on October 25, 1929, by SirGodfrey Baring, Bt., Chairman of theCommittee of Management of theInstitution, at a meeting held in theTown Hall. The Mayor of Sunderland,President of the Branch, was in thechair, supported by Alderman SirWalter Raine, Chairman of the Branch.In making the presentation, Sir GodfreyBaring spoke of Sunderland as being oneof the strongholds of the Life-boatService. Sir Walter Raine received theVellum on behalf of the Branch, and indoing so spoke of the pioneers of Life-boat work on the North-East Coast.He also referred to the devoted work ofthe late Mr. W. J. Oliver, for twenty-sixyears the Honorary Secretary of theStation, and one of the first to beelected an Honorary Life Governor of theInstitution, when these Governorshipswere instituted as the highest honourwhich the Institution could bestow onits honorary workers. Sir Walter

Raine then presented the Vellum to theMayor, who said that it would be hungin a place of honour in the Town Hall.

Hartlepool, Durham.

Hartlepool, like Sunderland, appearsin the first Annual Report of theInstitution, published in 1825, as alreadyhaving a Life-boat Station. There havebeen, at different times, three Stationsat Hartlepool itself, and two at WestHartlepool. The two West HartlepoolStations were taken over by the Institu-tion in 1869, and the three HartlepoolStations in 1875. Since 1850 the numberof lives rescued is 277. Seven SrlverMedals have been awarded to Life-boatmen and others ; and in 1902 amonetary award was made to the Crewof Hartlepool No. 3 Station by theGerman Emperor, for rescuing the crewof a German vessel. One of the remark-able features of the Station's work is therecord of its Honorary Secretaries. Ithas only had two since it was takenover by the Institution in 1875. Mr.H. S. Belk held that position until1883, when he was succeeded by thepresent Honorary Secretary, his brother,Mr. Alfred Belk, who has thus served forforty-seven years, and has twice receivedpresentations from the Institution inrecognition of his services.

The Vellum was presented on 26thOctober, 1929, by Sir Godfrey Baring,Bt., Chairman of the Committee ofManagement of the Institution, at ameeting held in the Council Chamber.The Mayor presided, supported byColonel Burdon, President of the Branch.In making the presentation, Sir GodfreyBaring paid a warm tribute to the sup-port which Hartlepool had always givento the Life-boat Service. The Vellumwas received by the Mayor, who pro-mised that it would have a place ofhonour in the records of the town.

Newhaven, Sussex.

- The Newhaven Life-boat Station wasestablished in 1825. Of the work of thefirst Life-boat the Institution has norecord, but since 1851, when the secondboat was stationed there, the NewhavenLife-boats have rescued 317 lives. It

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has had altogether nine Life-boats,three of which, all called Michael Henry,being built out of the Jewish Scholars'Life-boat Fund. These three boatsserved at the station from 1877 until1912. Newhavea was one of the firstStations to be equipped with motorpower, the third Michael Henry beingconverted into a motor boat in 1906.Six years later she was replaced bythe present Motor Life-boat, namedafter Sir Fitzroy Clayton, who wasChairman of the Committee of Manage-ment from 1908 until 1911. This boatis shortly to be replaced by another andmore powerful Motor Life-boat.

One Gold, six Silver and two BronzeMedals have been awarded by the Insti-tution to Life-boatmen and others forgallantry in saving life. In addition tothese awards, the present Coxswain hasreceived an inscribed Gold Watch, andeach member of the Crew an inscribedSilver Goblet from the Danish Govern-ment for the rescue of the crew of theschooner Mogens Koch on 7th December,1929.

* The Vellum was presented by Rear-Admiral T. P. H. Beamish, C.B., M.P.,a member of the Committee of Manage-ment of the Institution, at the AnnualDinner to the Newhaven Crew on 13thDecember, 1929. Mr. R. W. Dewdney,Chairman of the Local Committee,presided, supported by Mr. E. H.Bennett (Chairman of the NewhavenUrban District Council), Mayor R. G.Willis (Chairman of the Seaford UrbanDistrict Council), and the Chairmen ofthe Newhaven and Seaford Chambersof Commerce. In making the presenta-tion Rear-Admiral Beamish spoke inparticular of the splendid rescue, aweek before, of the crew of the MogensKoch, in which service Coxswain Paynehad been so severely injured that hewas unable to be present at the dinner.The Vellum was received by Mr. Bennett,who spoke of Newhaven's pride in itsLife-boat, recalling the names of itsdistinguished Coxswains, and referringto the services of Mr. J. J. Lines, whohad been Honorary Secretary for nearlythirty years.

Life-boat Conferences.North-Eastern and South-Western Districts.

A CONFERENCE of Branches in theNorth-Eastern District was held atHarrogate on the 25th October, 1929.

Many of the delegates attended areception given by the Mayor andMayoress in the Royal Spa ConcertRooms on the evening of the 24th, andrepresentatives of thirty-three Branchesand Guilds were welcomed by the Mayoron the opening of the Conference. SirGodfrey Baring, the Chairman of theCommittee of Management, presided,supported by Mr. George F. Shee, M.A.,the Secretary of the Institution, andthe District Organising Secretary.

The Chairman thanked the Mayor forthe very kind reception which Harrogatehad given to the Conference, and spokeon the work of the Institution in general.The Secretary then gave a brief surveyof the notable part that the counties ofDurham, Northumberland and York-shire had played in the foundation anddevelopment of the Life-boat Service.

A general discussion then took placeon various items of propaganda andpublicity, during which the followingpoints were made :—

The value of the personal and thehandwritten appeal as distinct from thetypewritten appeal, and the importanceof applying for the renewal of con-tributions at the same time each year.The best time for making appeals forsubscriptions was considered to be thelatter part of October or the beginningof November.

The value of small family parties,Whist Drives, Dances and Concerts insmall places. In this connexion, theflags and bunting supplied by Head-quarters had been found to be a greatattraction.

House-to-house Collections weregenerally agreed to be excellent ways ofraising funds. In this appeal the col-lector was brought into personal touchwith the householder. Several Branches

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held house-to-house collections in con-junction with the Flag Day, having theformer on the Friday and the latter onthe Saturday.

The view was expressed that FlagDays were as good as ever for raisingmoney, particularly if the cause werepopular. At Hull the experience wasthat the Life-boat Service was easily themost popular for street collections, and nodifficulty was found in getting workers.

The value of keeping collectors to-gether during the year was emphasised.In Hull an evening was arranged towhich all workers were invited by theLord Mayor and Lady Mayoress. Inthis connexion the Secretary emphasisedthe importance of the Guild in achievingthe same object. Life-boat Day andHouse-to-House collectors should all beenrolled as members of the Guild.

The placing of Life-boat CollectingBoxes in public-houses and hotels wasspoken of, and several Branches hadfound it very profitable.

The Secretary urged Branches tomake use of existing organisations, suchas Eotary Clubs, Toe H, Brotherhoods,Women's Institutes, etc., and severalBranches reported that considerablehelp had already been obtained fromone or other of these bodies.

The Chairman stated that in manyplaces on.the coast the actual residentsof the town contributed very little, andthe Branch relied upon visitors. It wastime the residents did their share, andhe instanced one Branch which haddecided on a Special Effort to be held ata period of the year when there were fewvisitors, so as to induce the residents tosupport the Institution better.

The question of Life-boat Sunday wasdiscussed, and the Secretary said thatefforts had been made to get one Sundayset aside for the Life-boat Service, andthe heads of the different churches hadbeen approached, but there were diffi-culties because the matter was notessentially a religious one. In a largenumber of Branches Life-boat Sundaycollections were arranged, and evenwhere collections were not given muchgood could be done by asking the clergyof all denominations to mention theInstitution in the sermon on the Sunday

before Life-boat Day, and to appeal toladies to come forward and help.

South-Western District.Conferences of Branches in Cornwall,

Devon, Dorset, Someieet and Wiltshirewere held at the Town Hall, Truro, onthe 25th February, and in the Muni-cipal Buildings, Taunton, on the 27thFebruary.

Representatives from nine Branchesand five Ladies' Life-boat Guildsattended the' Conference at Truro,and representatives from twenty-fiveBranches and eleven Ladies' Life-boatGuilds at Taunton. At each Con-ference an official welcome was given to£he delegates by the Mayor, and theGhair was taken by Sir Godfrey Baring,Bt., Chairman of the Committee ofManagement, supported by Mr. GeorgeF. Shee, M.A., the Secretary of theInstitution, and the District OrganisingSecretary.

The Chairman thanked the delegatesfor their presence, and expressed theCommittee's warm appreciation of thehelp which Honorary Secretaries andworkers had given during the past year.Mr. Shee then gave a survey of the workof the Institution, and particularly ofthe part played by the counties in theSouth-West of England.

A general discussion followed onvarious items of propaganda and pub-licity, during which the following pointswere made:—

The great value of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild, even in places where resultswere already very good.

The extension of Branch activitiesby the inclusion of villages round atown.

The importance of annual subscrip-tions. In this connexion the value ofthe personal touch was strongly empha-sised by many delegates, while it wasagreed that a postal appeal, if sent outon the right lines, could also be madeeffective.

The importance of sending out appli-cations for the renewal of all contribu-tions.

The value of house-to-house collec-tions, bridge drives and jumble sales.

The value of collecting boxes in hotels,

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THE NEW BRIGHTON LIFE-BOAT RESCUING THE CREW OF THE EMILEDELMAS, 24th NOVEMBER, 1928. THE FINEST SERVICE OF THE YEAR.

(It should be noted that in ordinary circumstances the mast would not be lying across the net, but theCoxswain was compelled to stow it, as both steamer and Life-boat were rolling heavily.)

This is a reproduction of a painting by Mr. William McDowell, which is (or sale at £150. The artistproposes to give £30 of this sum to the Institution.

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shops and public-houses was referred to,and Branches urged to make more use ofthis form of collecting.

The Chairman urged the value of theStreet Collection as reaching the" smaller " contributors, and appealedto Branches to do everything possibleto obtain a -date for a Life-boat Day.The Secretary pointed out the value ofgetting plergy of all denominations torefer to the Institution and its work inthe sermon on the Sunday before Life-boat Day,'and of obtaining the help ofexisting Societies, such as Rotary Clubs,British Legion, Women's Institutes,Boy Scouts and Girl Guides, Brother-hoods, etc., etc.

The Secretary spoke of the splendid

support received from shops, works,factories, etc., all over the country, butstated that in the South-West of Englandthe response had been disappointing.He urged Honorary Secretaries to do allthey could in this direction, especiallyby sending to the District OrganisingSecretary a list of the firms in their areawhich employed a number of people, sothat the general appeal for an annualcollection could be sent to them.

The Chairman emphasised the valueof a properly organised Annual Meeting.Such a meeting should be made asattractive as possible, and should beheld in the evening, when more peoplewould be free to attend than in theafternoon.

The French Life-boat Society.The New Motor Life-boat for Calais.

LIKE the Institution, La Societe Centralede Sauvetage des Naufrages publishesin its second half-yearly Report for1929 a preliminary survey of theactivities and progress during that year,and we think it will interest our readersto have a brief summary thereof. For,although the French Life-boat Servicewas not established until 1865, it has,from the first, shown a vigour in actionand an eagerness in progress that areeminently characteristic of a bravepeople which has made such notablecontributions to the march of science,especially in mathematics, physics andapplied mechanics.

The Society's latest and most powerfulMotor Life-boat, bearing the gloriousname of Marechal Foch, is to be placedat Calais. She is a 42 feet 6 inch by11 feet 4 inch twin-screw twin-engineboat with a speed of 8£ knots. A fulldescription of this important boat, witha summary of the'principles which theSociety aims at in its programme of con-struction, appears in the Report underreview ; but we-'C&n only note here thedecision in future to provide Motor Life-boats of this and larger sizes with twin-engines, and, if possible, twin-screws,the single engine with single screw beingconfined, as in the case of the Institu-tion, to the smaller boats, which are

provided with full sail power in addition,as it is not held to be safe to rely uponone engine only. The Marfohal Foch isdue to reach her Station about the endof June. She will be carried on davitsplaced on a carriage resting on a trolley,which will move on rails by electricpower. Twin-screw boats have been, orare being, placed also at Camaret, nearBrest, at St. Carro and Dieppe.

The French Society has, for a longtime, been faced with a special problemin dealing with the frequent wrecks,mainly of fishing vessels, which occur inthe enormous area of shallows whichcover the delta at the Bouches duRhone. Vessels in distress in thesewaters call for the promptest action byLife-boats with a very small draught.The Society is, therefore, building alight flat-bottomed boat, weighing alittle under 4 tons, with a Castelnaumotor, the propeller being so constructedthat it can be raised when in the shallows,a device which the American Life-saving Service has long since adoptedfor some of the light Motor Life-boatslaunching off a beach. This boat willbe placed at St. Louis du Rhone.

The Reibel Rocket Apparatus, a fullaccount of which was given in theReport on the Second International Life-boat Conference, held in Paris in June,

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1928, has greatly improved the means ofrescue by this method, which is essenti-ally intended for use from the shore orfrom the decks of ships. This means ofrescue is provided by the Society, whotrain the personnel. This personnel,however, consists of the Customs officers,who operate the apparatus on the wholeof the French coast; and there is thesame close co-operation between theseofficials and the French Life-boatSociety as there is between the Board ofTrade, which provides and has charge

of the Rocket Apparatus on our coasts,and this Institution.

At the present moment the FrenchSociety has 108 Life-boats, of which 28are Motor Boats. In addition, there are422 Life-saving posts, of which 72 areprovided with Mortars or Rocket Ap-paratus. The Society has assisted 1,898boats and vessels, and has rescued byBoats, Rocket Apparatus and othermeans, over 28,000 lives since itsfoundation.

Life-boat Days.IN the article called " A Roam Throughthe Annual Report," which appeared inthe last issue of The Lifeboat, it wasstated that the number of places inwhich Street Collections had been heldin 1928 was nearly 800, and that in thisway £43,000 had been raised. Thefigures for 1929 are almost the same.There were about 850 Days, and thesum raised was £44,000. Those figuresare in themselves a sufficient justifica-tion of Life-boat Days. But if anythingfurther need be said, it is admirably saidin an article on Flag Days in theNottingham Journal and Express for the28th April, written from the point ofview not of the charity, but of thepublic.

" The official flag-day season inNottingham opened on Saturday. . . .It may come somewhat as a shock tothe tight-fisted fraternity to learnthat, "with the exception of the 9thAugust, eveiy Saturday from now untilOctober, will see an appeal of this

nature made to the citizens of Notting-ham."

There follows a list of twenty-fourstreet appeals, ending with " PoppyDay " in November. The article con-tinues :—

" Critics of flag-days would do well toremember that \d. per week—the tightfisted need not give more !—is a smallsum to pay for the satisfaction ofknowing they are associating them-selves with practically the whole of thefine work done by the charities of thecity. We ought to be proud of theopportunity."

If anything needs to be added to thatexcellent reply to the critics, it is thatany one who, for the sum of two shillings,has obtained the right to say that hehas given his help to every local andnational charity of importance, shouldbe one of the strongest supporters of asystem of appealing which enables himto fulfil his charitable duty at suchsmall cost to himself.

Obituary.Sir William Milligan, M.D., LLJD., J.P.,

of Manchester.

BY the death of Sir William Milligan,on 19th December, 1929, at the age of65, the Manchester, Salford and DistrictBranch has lost its Chairman, the Insti-tution one of its Vice-Presidents, andthe whole Life-boat Service one of itsmost generous and devoted friends.The Branch was singularly fortunate inhaving as its Chairman a man of such

pre-eminence in his own profession—his reputation as art ear and throatspecialist was world-wide—who com-bined with his great professional skillsuch high gifts for administration andpublic service. Sir William Milliganbecame the Chairman of the Branch in1920, and during the nine years of hisChairmanship, busy man though hewas, he was never too busy to give hishelp to the Branch. He took a par-

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ticularly active part in the organisationof the Centenary Bazaar of the Branch,which in three days raised over £10,000,this special gift to the Institution beingused to provide the Motor Life-boat,Manchester and Salford, stationed atDouglas, in the Isle of Man. Sir WilliamMilligan was always ready with sugges-tion, advice and personal service, andhis unfailing courtesy and kindness, andthe value of his help, will be rememberedwith deep gratitude and affectionby all who worked with him in Man-chester and Salford for the Life-boatCause.

Beyond the work of the Branch hewas always ready to serve the Institu-tion. He represented it on numerousoccasions, and was known in manyplaces in the North of England as aLife-boat speaker. Some months beforehis death he had a serious operation.He promised, not long afterwards, torepresent the Institution at the pre-sentation of the Centenary Vellumawarded to the Station at Ramsey inthe Isle of Man. His doctor warned himthat he ran considerable risk in taking asea-passage. Sir William saw the Insti-tution's Organiser in the North ofEngland, and told him what the doctorhad said. He added that he had pro-mised to go, and that he would go, riskor no risk, if it were too late to findsomeone to take his place. If, however,he did not go to Ramsey, there wasanother Life-boat Centenary at whichhe had been asked to represent theInstitution on the same day at Whitby,and he would attend that instead. Thatincident was characteristic of his finespirit, his loyalty and devotion. Whenhe spoke at the Annual Meeting of theInstitution in London in 1928, at whichthe Prince of Wales presided, he beganhis speech with the words: " TheInstitution has a very warm cornerindeed in the hearts of the people ofNorthern England; and well it may,considering the part which the Northhas played in its fortunes and vicissi-tudes." None showed the warmth ofthat feeling more truly than Sir WilliamMilligan himself, and he will always behonourably remembered for his owngenerous share in the fortunes of the

Life-boat Service in the North ofEngland.

General Sir Charles Monro, Bt., G.CJJ.,G.C.M.G., G.C.SJ

The Committee of Management alsodeeply regret the loss of another col-league, General Sir Charles Monro, Bt.,G.C.B., G.C.M.G., G.C.S.I., who becamea member of the Committee of Manage-ment in 1921. Two years later he wasappointed Governor and Commander-in-Chief at Gibraltar, but he remained amember, and resumed his duties on theCommittee when he returned to Englanda year before his death.

Mrs. Brandreth Gibbs, of Leigh-on-Sea.

By the death of Mrs. H. BrandrethGibbs, of Leigh-On-Sea, who died on22nd November, 1929, at the age of 85,the Institution has lost one of its oldestworkers. She became a Life-boatworker more than sixty years ago. Asfar back as 1869 she was presented witha framed photograph for her work inconnexion with an appeal at Exeter.Her interest in the Institution con-tinued right through her long life. In1918 she undertook the organisation ofthe Life-boat Day at Leigh-On-Sea forthe Southend-on-Sea Branch, and con-tinued this work, with great enthusiasmand success, for eight years, untilobliged by serious illness to give it upin 1926. She was then awarded theGold Brooch, which is given only fordistinguished honorary services,

Miss E. M. Jordan, of Dover.

The Institution has lost, by the deathof Miss E.'M. Jordan, of Dover, in Aprilof this year, one of its latest, but one ofits most enthusiastic honorary workers.She became the Honorary Secretary ofthe Dover Ladies' Life-boat Guild inDecember, 1928, the Guild being formedas a result of the decision to re-open theDover Station, and to place there thespecial fast Motor Life-boat, which wascompleted and sent to the coast onlythis year. Miss Jordan took up thework with such enthusiasm that by thefollowing month over 130 members hadbeen enrolled, and in 1929, while the new

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boat was still under construction, theGuild raised £94.

By the deaths of ex-CoxswainsJames Cable, of Aldeburgh, ex-Coxswain

James Chisholm, of St. Andrews, andCoxswain George Taylor, of Hauxley,the Institution has lost three distin-guished Life-boatmen. It is hoped togive an account of their services in thenext issue of The Lifeboat.

Gifts in Gratitude for Services.On the 28th September, 1929, the Thurso

Motor Life-boat rescued the crew, twenty innumber, of a cutter belonging to H.M.S. Marl-borough. In appreciation of this service theCanteen Fund of H.M.S. Marlborough has given£22 to the Institution and £1 to each of theeight members of the Life-boat Crew.*

* * * * *On the 15th November, 1929, the St. Helier,

Jersey, Life-boat was launched, and stood bythe tug Perots and a barge which were indifficulties. The Owners, the NetherlandsHarbour Works Co., have given the sum of£20 to the Institution.

* * * * *On the 26th November, 1929, the Angle

Motor Life-boat, at her third attempt, rescuedtwenty-eight survivors from the s.s. Molesey,of London, which had been wrecked on thecoast of Pembrokeshire on the previous day.The St. David's Motor Life-boat was alsolaunched. The owners, Britain SteamshipsCo., Ltd., Messrs. Watts, Watts & Co., havegiven a donation of £105 to the Institution asa " small recognition of the fine work " doneby the Life-boats.f

* An account of this service appeared inThe Lifeboat for November, 1929.

t A full account of this service appeared inthe March issue of The Lifeboat.

On the 7th December, 1929, the BembridgeMotor Life-boat saved the ketch Silent, ofCowes, and rescued her crew of two. TheInstitution has received a donation of £5 fromthe owner, Mr. Leonard J. Souter.

* * * * *On the 5th February, 1930, the Hauxley

Life-boat brought ashore from the CoquetIsland Lighthouse a keeper who was very ill.The Life-boat was used, as, owing to the badweather, no other suitable boat was available,and the Trinity House have remitted to theInstitution the expenses amounting to £18 5s.

* * * * *On the 6th February, 1930, the Whitby

Motor Life-boat put out in response to awireless message, and landed the ChiefEngineer of the s.s. Brandon, who was ill withappendicitis. The owners, Messrs. C. Salvesen& Co., who are subscribers to the Institution,expressed a wish to pay the expenses, and havesent a contribution of £9 6s. &d.

* * * * *On the 16th February, 1930, the Clacton-on-

Sea Motor Life-boat rescued Mr. G. F. Burnley,of New Southgate, and his brother, when theircutter Elizabeth was wrecked on the GunfleetSands. The Institution has received adonation from Mr. Burnley, together with his" sincerest and deepest thanks,", and thepromise of a larger contribution later.

Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management.Tuesday, 31st December, 1929.

PAID £17,250 15s. 3d. for sundry charges inconnexion with the construction of Life-boats,Life-boat Houses and Slipways, and themaintenance of the various Life-boat estab-lishments.

Thursday, 16th January, 1930.MAJOR SIR MAURICE CAMERON, followed by

SIR GODFREY BABINO, Bt., in the Chair.Decided to close the Huna Life-boat Station.Reported the receipt of the following special

contributions:—£ s. d.

King George's Fund for Sailors,(additional donation) . . . 1,000 0 0

" A. W." (additional donation) . 100 0 0Cunard S.S. Company (subscrip-

tion) . . . . . . . . 100 0 0

£ «. d.White Star Line Steamers' Charity

Fund (additional donation) . 100 0 0Mr. Herbert Jones and Mrs.

Jones (subscription) . . . 100 0 0Anonymous (additional donation) 60 0 0Anonymous, for a Line-Throwing

Gun, etc., for the BallycottonLife-boat 45 0 0

Mr. Alfred Barrett, J.P. (addi-tional donation) 26 5 0

A Derbeian 20 0 0Mr. W. H. A. Wharton (sub-

scription) 20 0 0To be thanked.Paid £14,866 18». 44. for sundry charges in

connexion with the construction of Life-boats,Life-boat Houses and Slipways,' and themaintenance of the various Life-boat estab-lishments.

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Produced the report of the Committeeappointed by the Board of Trade to inquireinto the question of the use of Kapok. TheCommittee did not recommend any alterationin the present design of the Life-belts suppliedby the Institution to the Crews of its Life-boats.

Voted the Silver Medal of the Institution,together with a copy of the Vote inscribed onVellum and framed, and an additionalmonetary reward to Richard Payne, Cox-swain of the Newhaven Motor Life-boat, inrecognition of the judgment and high couragewith which he handled the Life-boat, when,on the 7th December, she rescued the crew,ten in number, of the Danish schooner MogensKoch, of Ronne, which was wrecked atCuckmere, in severe weather. The Thanks ofthe Institution inscribed on Vellum, togetherwith an additional monetary reward, weregranted to each of the other members of theCrew—Willie Clark, Second Coxswain;Frederick Payne, Bowman; Ernest Cantell,Motor Mechanic; Charles Holder, AssistantMotor Mechanic; Frederick Jones, RichardLower, and Benjamin J. Clark.

(A full account of this service appeared inThe Lifeboat for March, 1930.)

Voted £139 3s. 3d. to pay the expenses ofthe following Life-boat services during Decem-ber, 1929, and January, 1930.

Dec. 7.—The service of the NEWHAVENMotor Life-boat to the Mogens Koch (describedabove).—Expenses, £18 16*. 6d.

Dec. 7.—THE BEMBEIDQE Motor Life-boatwas launched during a whole westerly gale, witha very heavy sea, and saved the ketch Silent, ofCowes, laden with oil cake and grain, andrescued her crew of two. Information thatthe vessel was showing signals had beenreceived at about 8 A.M., and the Life-boat putoff and found the vessel off Fish House in asinking condition, with her boat gone and herhead sails blown away. The Captain declinedto leave her, so the Life-boat assisted her toWootten Bridge. The owner of the Silent,Mr. Souter, gave a donation of £5 to the fundsof the Institution in appreciation of theservices of the Life-boat.—Expenses, £10 la.

Dec. 22.—THE WHTTBY Motor Life-boat waslaunched at 11.30 A.M., in a moderate 8.E.breeze, with a moderate sea, and stood by themotor fishing coble W. H. Gladstone. Earlierin the morning several cobles had put out,but by 11.30 all had returned with the excep-tion of the W. H. Gladstone, and, as the seaswere breaking dangerously at the harbourmouth, it was thought advisable to send outthe Life-boat. The coble was met a mile outto sea and accompanied to safety.—Expenses,£10 3s. 6d.

Dee. 24.—THE WHTTBY Motor Life-boatstood by the motor fishing boat Pilot Me. At7.30 A.M. the Pilot Me had gone off to thefishing grounds, the only boat to go. As therewas a very heavy sea, though only a moderateW.S.W. breeze blowing, the Life-boat waslaunched at 11.40 in case her help should be

required. About 1 P.M. the fishing boat wasseen approaching, and the Life-boat went toher and warned her skipper of the dangerousconditions on the harbour bar. He decided totry and make harbour with the Life-boat inattendance. The Pilot Me struck the EastPier, but the strong tide carried her clear ofthe rocks, and she was safely beached.—Expenses, £9 6s. 6d.

Jan. 3.—THE SHERINOHAM Life-boat waslaunched at 3.45 P.M., in a moderate W. toN.W. gale, with a moderate sea, and rainsqualls, and rendered assistance to the s.s.Lestris, of Bruges, which was in difficultiesnear the Blakeney Bell Buoy, while bound forBo'ness with a cargo of iron ore. The Life-boat found the vessel with her cargo shifted,and her engines broken down. Two Life-boatmen went aboard and the captain askedthem to take a cablegram ashore, saying thathe would require no further assistance. Thiswas done, the boat returning to her stationabout 9.15 P.M., having been out for sixhours.—Expenses, £55 8s. 9d.

Jan. 6.—THE NBWHAVEN Motor Life-boatwas launched at 10 P.M., in a strong W. breeze,with a rough sea, on information received fromthe Coastguard, and saved the motor fishingboat Mispah, of Brighton, rescuing her crew ofthree. The boat was found with her enginesbroken down, and the Life-boat towed her intoNewhaven.—Expenses, £16 3s.

Jan. 7.—THB CUULERCOATS Life-boat waslaunched at 12.45 P.M., in a strong S.W. gale,with a rough sea, to the coble Providence,which was found with her engine broken down,and shipping water heavily. The coble andher three occupants were towed safely into theharbour. The crew of the Providence was theCoxswain of the Life-boat, his son, and theLife-boat's Bowman.—-Expenses, £19 4s.

The following services were also reported :—Dec. 18.—THE HUMBEB Motor Life-boat

stood by the steam trawler Bengal, of Grimsby,which had stranded, during thick weatherwith a light W.N.W. breeze, at Holmpton,near Withernsea, while returning from thefishing grounds. The Life-boat was launchedat 3.45 A.M., and remained with the trawleruntil the tide fell. As her services were notthen required, she returned to her Station,arriving at 10 A.M. The Bengal had strandedthe previous night, and her crew had beenrescued from the shore by the Life-savingApparatus. Later, they had returned to thesteamer, and while the Life-boat stood by, anunsuccessful effort was made by the crew torefloat the steamer.—Permanent Crew, Pro-perty Salvage Case.

Dec. 29.—THE PIEL (BABROW) MotorLife-boat saved the s.s. Apolo, of Bilbao, andrescued her crew of thirty-four, when she ranshort of fuel, while bound from Almeria toBarrow, with a cargo of iron ore, and was indanger of being disabled or blown ashore by astrong W. gale, with a very heavy sea. In-formation that the steamer was in need of helphad been received by wireless shortly after

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noon, and the Life-boat was promptly launchedand went to the Apolo, which was in thevicinity of the Morecambe Bay Lightship,It was found that she had a very heavy list,and that the seas were making a clean breachover her. At the third attempt the Life-boatsucceeded in getting alongside, and, at somerisk, the Coxswain boarded the steamer.He found that she had coal to last only a fewhours and decided that the best thing to dowas to let her drift until there was enoughwater for her to cross the bar and come intoharbour. Under the direction of the Cox-swain, who is a Pilot, the Apolo, with the Life-boat in attendance, was brought safely intoharbour about 10 P.M. This was a verycreditable service, carried out in severe weatherconditions, and one in which the local know-ledge of the Coxswain was most valuable.—Property Salvage Case.

Also voted £551 Is. Zd. to pay the expensesof the following Life-boat launches, assembliesof crews, etc., with a view to assisting personson vessels in distress: Appledore (Motor),Arbroath, Barry Dock (Motor), Blackpool,Bridlington, Clacton-on-Sea (Motor), Easing-ton, Eastbourne (Motor), Fenit (Motor), Fleet-wood, Great Yarmouth and Gorleston (Motor),The Humber (Motor), Ilfracombe, Llandudno,Longhope (Motor), Lowestoft (Motor), Margate(Motor), Newhaven (Motor), North Deal,Padstow (Motor), Penlee (Motor), Eamsgate(Motor), St. Mary's (Motor), St. Holier, St.Peter Port (Motor), Shoreham (Motor), Stone-haven, Stromness (Motor), Tenby (Motor),Troon (Motor), Tynemouth (Motor), andWalton-on-the-Naze (Motor).

Passed a further £11 on account of pensionsalready granted to dependent relatives of menwho lost their lives in the Life-boat Service atBrighstone Grange, Caister, and Fraserburgh.

Granted £26 14s. to men for injury in theLife-boat Service at Caister and Padstow.

Voted a further sum of £26 for the benefitof the last survivor of the Crew of the Rams-gate Life-boat who took part in tne rescue ofthe Indian Chief in. 1881.

Voted a compassionate grant of £2 to PETERSINCLAIR, who had been a member of the Crewof the Irvine Life-boat for thirty years, andwho was now an invalid and in very straitenedcircumstances.

Voted a compassionate grant of £3 to thewidow of LEWIS ROBERTS, who had been amember of the Holyhead Life-boat Crew forupwards of fifty years.

Decided that the special weekly allowancenow being paid to W. E. HAYLETT, ex-SecondCoxswain of the Caister Life-boat, who wascompelled to retire owing to serious illness dueto exposure in the Life-boat Service^becontinued.

VotedJ15s. toTWRiGHT GBIGOS, Jnr./famember of the Hythe Life-boat Crew, andanother man, for putting off in a small rowingboat at Hythe, on,the 24th 'December, with awesterly wind blowing, and a heavy^gronnd

swell, and rescuing two men from a smallseaplane which had come down and capsizedabout two miles off shore.

Voted £4 10s. to twelve men, for rescuing thecrew, five in number, of the fishing boatMarjory Brown, at Gourdon, on the 7thJanuary, during a moderate S.S.W. gale, witha fairly heavy sea, when the fishing boat, whileentering Gourdon Harbour, was caught bytwo seas in rapid succession, driven on therocks at the foot of the harbour breakwater,and badly holed.

Directed that a Letter of Appreciation becommunicated, through the Rector of Little-haven, to R. M. LOCKLEY and five other men,for putting off from Marloes, Pembrokeshire,in a rowing boat, during a strong S.W. gale,with a very heavy sea, and rain, with theintention of helping those on board the s.s.Molesey, of London, ashore on Middle Island,on the 26th November. (The survivors onthe Molesey were rescued by the Angle MotorLife-boat. See The Lifeboat for March, 1930.)

Voted £1 5s. to five men, for saving themotor fishing coble Topsy, when her enginehad broken down, and rescuing her crew ofthree, at Whitby, on the 1st January. Alsogranted 5s. for fuel consumed.

Thursday, 20th February, 1930.SIR GODFREY BARING, Bt., in the Chair.

Reported the receipt of the following specialcontributions:—

£ s. d.Mr. William Nuttall (donation) . 250 0 0Mrs. Parry, in memory of the late

Miss H. M. Chynoweth (dona-tion) 25 0 0

Miss Edith B. Gibson (donation) . 20 0 0Mr. Charles Barnett (donation) . 10 0 0

To be thanked.Paid £24,959 8s. 6d. for sundry charges in

connexion with the construction of Life-boats,Life-boathouses, and Slipways, and the main-tenance of the various Life-boat establish-ments.

Voted £202 3s. 3d. to pay the expenses of thefollowing Life-boat Services during December,January and February, 1930.

Dec. 25.—THE FLEETWOOD Life-boatrescued six men from the s.s. Tchad, of Havre,during a moderate westerly gale, with a veryheavy sea. The steamer was in the Luue Deepswaiting to proceed to Morecambe to be brokenup, when her anchors dragged, and distresssignals were sent up. These were seen by theCoxswain, and the Life-boat was launched at6.30 P.M. In going alongside the steamer, theLife-boat was badly damaged, but she wasable to take the crew off and sail back toFleetwood, which was reached at 10.15 P.M.—Expenses, £37 4s. 6d.

Jan. 12th, 1930.—THE WEYMOUTH MotorLife-boat, as a result of information receivedfrom the Coastguard, rescued the crew of seven

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of the s.s. Forester, of Cardiff, which hadstruck Portland Breakwater and turned turtlewhile bound from Poole to Swansea, in ballast.A whole W. gale was blowing, with a veryheavy sea. The Life-boat found that the menhad managed to scramble on to the breakwaterand after considerable difficulty, and with theaid of two of the Life-boatmen who got on tothe breakwater, the whole crew were gotsafely into the Life-boat and taken to Wey-mouth. One man, who was injured, was after-wards taken to Hospital.

This was a good service, and the Committeeof Management directed that a Letter ofAppreciation be addressed to the Life-boatCrew.—Expenses, £19 3«.

Jan. 12th, 1930.—-Tna TOBBA.Y Motor Life-boat was launched at 5.15 P.M., in a wholeW.N.W. gale, with a very heavy sea and heavyrain squalls, and rendered assistance to severalvessels. The schooner Katie, of Padstow, hadbeen seen to be drifting close to BrixhamBreakwater, and the Life-boat stood by her,returning to harbour at 6.15. Immediatelyon her return, however, the Katie sent up adistress signal, and the Life-boat once againwent to her and took off her crew of four.While she was taking the rescued crew toharbour the ketch Seine des deux, of Paimpol,was seen drifting rapidly out to sea broadsideon to the breakers, so the Life-boat went inpursuit and rescued her crew of three. Afterlanding the two crews the Life-boat put offyet again and rendered assistance to the yachtWestward, and the trawlers Hermes, andWe'll Try, and stood by all three vessels untilthey made Brixham Harbour safely.—Ex-penses, £16 16s.

Jan. 22nd, 1930.—The ABERDEEN No. 2Life-boat, after being taken 6J miles overland,was launched at 7.50 A.M., in a strong S.W.breeze, with a rough, sea, and rescued the crewof ten of the trawler John 0. Watson, of Aber-deen, which had stranded while returningladen from the fishing grounds to Aberdeen.The No. 1 (Motor) Life-boat had previouslybeen launched at 3.0 A.M., but owing to thefact that the vessel had bumped over a reef,she was unable to get sufficiently close to effecta rescue, and so returned for the No. 2 Life-boat. The latter found that the CoastguardLife-saving Apparatus Brigade had beensuccessful in firing a rocket line aboard thewreck, but owing to the darkness, this had notbeen seen. When rescued, the shipwreckedmen were in an exhausted condition, havingbeen hanging in the rigging all night.—Expenses, £27 8s. 9<2.

Jan. 29th, 1930.—The DUNMOBE EASTMotor Life-boat was launched at 12.20 P.M.,in a moderate 8. to S.W. gale, with a rough seaand rain, and rescued the crew of three of theketch Bernard, of Bridgewater, which on theprevious morning had foundered about20 miles south of Mine Head while bound fromBridgewater to Cork, with a cargo of pottery.The men had taken to the ship's boat, and afterremaining at anchor all that day and part of

the night, had tried to make Watorford, butwere too exhausted to pull the boat, so theskipper had let her run before the wind,steering with an oar. The Life-boat Coxswainsaw the boat drifting and in grave danger ofbeing blown on to the rocks, so the Life-boatput off and brought the boat and crew intoDunmore. The rescued men were in a veryexhausted condition after having been in theirsmall boat for 31 hours, one man being un-conscious.—Expenses, £4 Os. 6d.

Feb. 3rd, 1930.—The WHTTBY Motor Life-boat was launched at 4.10 P.M., in a moderateS.W. breeze, with a very rough sea as themotor fishing boats Pilot Me and Fortunas hadput off at 6.15 A.M. to haul crab pots and hadnot returned, as expected, at 3 P.M. The Life-boat came up with the boats about 1 milenorth of Whitby, and escorted them toWhitby and safely across the harbour bat-overwhich heavy seas were breaking.—Expenses,£13 18*. 9d.

Feb. 5th, 1930.—The HAUXLEY Life-boatwas launched at the request of the Master ofPilots, and landed from Coquet Island Light-house a keeper who was seriously ill. A verystrong N.E. breeze was blowing, with a roughsea and snow showers, and no other boat wasable to get to the Island on account of theweather.—Expenses, £18 5s.; refunded to theInstitution by Trinity House.

Feb. 6th, 1930.—The WHITBY Motor Life-boat was launched at 11.40 A.M. in a moderateEasterly breeze with a heavy sea and escortedinto harbour the motor fishing coble Topsy.While the Life-boat was thus engaged a messagewas received by wireless from the s.s. Brandon,of London, that she was making for Whitbyas the Chief Engineer was suffering fromappendicitis, and in need of immediate medicalattention. A doctor and three ambulance menwere notified, and when the Life-boat came inthey boarded her and went off to meet theBrandon. The difficult and dangerous work ofgetting the man into the Life-boat wassuccessfully carried out, and he was broughtashore and taken to hospital. Shortly after-wards the Life-boat put off again and escortedhome another small fishing coble, and laterwent out a fourth time and stood by severalmotor fishing vessels as they made harbour.

The Owners of the 8.8. Brandon, Messrs. C.Salvesen & Co., who are already subscribers,sent a, donation of £9 6«, 6(2. to cover theexpenses of the service to their vessel.—Expenses, £23 5s. 3d.

Feb. 6th, 1930.—The SCABBOBOFGH MotorLife-boat was launched at 2.40 P.M., as thefishing cobles Kingfisher and Bonny Lad wereout crab-fishing, the sea was rough and growingworse, and a moderate N.E. wind was blowing.The Kingfisher was met first, and after Life-belts had been handed to her crew, she wasescorted into harbour. The Life-boat thenwent out again and stood by the Bonny Lad,whose crew were also given life-belts in case ofneed.—Expenses, £22 12s.

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Feb. 10th, 1930.—The MABQATB MotorLife-boat was launched at 1.25 P. .M in amoderate N.E. gale, with a heavy sea, inresponse to signals for assistance from theNorwegian steamer The Lab, which was lyingin the Margate Roads. She found that theMargate motor boat Thanet Queen, manned bytwo men, had gone out to take off a Pilot, buthad been stove in by collision with the vessel.The three men had managed to get aboardthe steamer from which they were broughtashore in the Life-boat.—Expenses, £10 16s. 6d.

Feb. 16th, 1930.—The CLAOTON-ON-SEAMotor Life-boat rescued the two occupants ofthe yacht Elizabeth, of Colchester, whichstranded on the Gunfleet Sands during astrong N.N.W. breeze with a rough sea, whilebound from Bast Meraea to Southend. In-formation that the yacht was ashore had beenreceived, through the Coastguard, at 9.25 A.M.,from the Gunfleet Lighthouse Keeper, who laterreported that she had hoisted a signal ofdistress. The yacht became a total wreck.

The Owner, Mr. G. F. Burnley, of NewSouthgate, who was on board with his brother,expressed appreciation of the services of theLife-boat and gave a donation to the Institu-tion.—Expenses, £8 12s.

The following service was also reported :—Jan. 10th, 1930.—The RAMSOATB Motor

Life-boat was launched at 1.55 A.M., in a freshS.W. gale, with a rough sea, and rain squalls,on receipt of a message from the North Fore-land Wireless Station received through theCoastguard, saved the s.s. Scheldesop, of Ghent,and rescued her crew of thirteen. Thesteamer had stranded three miles west of theEast Goodwin Lightvessel while bound fromBruges to Littlehampton with a cargo of stone.The Life-boat could not immediately getalongside the steamer and anchored until4.30 A.M., when four Life-boatmen boarded thevessel and with their aid she was got off thesands and taken safely into Ramsgate Har-bour.—Property Salvage Case.

Also voted £523 11s. 9d. to pay the expensesof the following Life-boat launches, assembliesof crews, etc., with a view to assisting personson vessels in distress : Aberdeen No. 1 (Motor),Barry Dock (Motor), Buckhaven, ClogherHead, Clonghey, Cromer (Motor), Easington,Eastbourne (Motor), Filey Flamborough No. 1,Fowey (Motor), Hastings, Hilbre Island,

Lowestoft (Motor), Lyme Regis, Margate(Motor), The Mumbles (Motor), Newcastle,North Deal, Padstow (Motor), Padstow No. 1,Penlee (Motor), Ramsgate (Motor), Selsey andBognor (Motor), Sheringham, Southend-on-Sea (Motor), Stornoway (Motor), Sunderland(Motor), Walmer, Weymouth (Motor), andWhitby No. 2.

Passed a further £4 on account of a pensionalready granted to a dependent relative of aman who lost his life in the Life-boat Serviceat Caister.

Granted £73 12s. to men for injury in theLife-boat Service at Llandndno, Newhaven,Swanage and Winterton.

Decided to make a weekly allowance of 10*.,as an expression of sympathy, to T. 8. MUBPHY,ex-Motor Mechanic of the Shoreham Life-boat,who broke a wrist while engaged on Life-boatwork, this allowance being in addition to the30». a week paid under the Workmen's Com-pensation Act.

Decided that a special weekly allowance bemade until May to JAMBS BULTITUDE, amember of the Crew of the Caister Life-boat,who was injured at a launch of the Life-boatin November, 1929.

Voted a compassionate grant of £3 toJOSBPH HOABE, who had been a member ofthe crew of the Ballycotton Life-boat forforty-five years, and was in very poor circum-stances.

Directed that a Letter of Appreciation beaddressed to the Second Coxswain of theWeymouth Motor Life-boat, for a successfulservice on the night of the 12th January.

Voted £3 to three men for towing intoharbour on llth November, 1929, at somerisk to themselves, the old Caister Life-boat,which, while being taken from Caister toCowes, after being withdrawn from theStation, encountered difficulties in makingFolkestone Harbour. Also granted £5 for gearlost in rendering assistance.

Voted £3 15*. to five men for putting off on9th January in a, strong S.S.E. gale, with achoppy sea, and rescuing the two occupantsof a motor fishing boat at Peterhead, whichwhen returning to harbour had fouled herpropeller, and become unmanageable, and wasdriving rapidly towards the rocks. Alsogranted 2s. 6d. for fuel consumed

Awards to Coxswains and Life-boatmen.Miss TATLOB, of Hauxley, has been presented

with the Coxswain's Certificate of Servicewhich would have been awarded to her latefather, GEOBGE TAYLOB, Coxswain atHauxley for twenty years, on his retirement,had he not, unfortunately, been drowned atsea, in November, 1929.

To JAMBS SMITH, on his retirement, afterserving 17 years as Coxswain, 9 years asSecond Coxswain, and previously 3 years asBowman of the Port Patrick Life-boat, a

Coxswain'sPension.

Certificate of Service, and a

To WILLIAM T. HAMMOND, on Ms retirement,after serving 15J years as Coxswain, 18|years as Second Coxswain, and previously11 years as a member of the Crew of theWalton-on-the-Naze Life-boat, a Coxswain'sCertificate of Service, and a Pension.

To FBEDBBIOE J. EAGLES, on his retirement,after serving 10 years as Coxswain, and

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previously 11J years as Second Coxswain ofthe Plymouth Life-boat, a Coxswain's Cer-tificate of Service, and a Pension.

To ROBERT STEPHENSON, on his retirementafter serving 7J years as Coxswain of theAlnmouth and Boulmer Life-boats, 5J yearsas Second Coxswain of the Boulmer Life-boat, and previously 30 years as a memberof the Crews of the Alnmouth and BoulmerLife-boats, a Life-boatman's Certificate ofService, and a Pension.

To DANIEL DAVIDSON, on his retirement, afterserving 14J years as Second Coxswain, andpreviously 2 years as Bowman of theDonaghadee Life-boat, a Life-boatman'sCertificate of Service, and a Pension.

To FRED HOPPER, on his retirement, afterserving 36 years in the Crews of the Spurnand Easington Life-boats—during 13 yearsof which he occupied the position of SecondCoxswain of the Easington Boat—a Life-boatman's Certificate of Service, and aPension.

To JAMES C. HOMTEE, on his retirement, afterserving 4 years as Second Coxswain, andpreviously 41 years as a member of the Crewof the Lyme Regis Life-boat, a Life-boat-man's Certificate of Service.

To HENKY J. BLANN, on his retirement, afterserving 12J years as Bowman, and pre-viously 27J years as a member of the Crewof the Worthing Life-boat, a Life-boatman'sCertificate of Service, and a Pension.

Pensions have been granted to the followingShore Signalmen who have retired, thefigure after their names being their years ofservice:—

WILLIAM DUNCAN (14J), St. Andrews.J. R. HOPPER (10), Bridlington.THOMAS KENNISH (38), Ramsey.SAMUEL PENDER (24$), Sennen Cove.CHARLES TOMS (31$), Looe.EDWARD TOUZEL (41), St. Helier.MATTHEW TURNER (20$), Boulmer.JOHN WARD (14J), Port Patrick.WILLIAM WILLIS (20), Ilfracombe.

To DANIEL MURPHY, on his retirement, afterserving 16 years as Coxswain of the DunLaoghaire (Kingstown) Life-boat, a Certi-ficate and a Pension.

To CHARLES D. MANN, on his retirement, afterserving 12 years as Coxswain and previously14 years as Second Coxswain of the Aide-burgh Life-boat, a Certificate of Service anda Pension.

To THOMAS JAMES, on his retirement on theclosing of the Station, after serving 4 yearsas Coxswain and previously 6 years asSecond Coxswain and 17 years as a memberof the Crew of the Rhoscolyn Life-boat, aLife-boatman's Certificate of Service and aPension.

To WALTER E. HAYLBTT, on his retirement,after serving 11 years as Second Coxswain,and previously 21 yean as a member of theCrew of the Caister Life-boats, a Life-boat-man's Certificate of Service and a Pension.

To CHARLES BATE, on his retirement, afterserving 7 years as Second Coxswain of thePadstow No. 2 Life-boat, a Gratuity.

To EDWARD OWEN, on his retirement on theclosing of the Station, after serving 17 yearsas Bowman and previously 13 years as amember of the crew of the Rhoscolyn Life-boat, a Life-boatman's Certificate of Serviceand a Pension.

To JOHN WILLIAMS, on his retirement, afterserving 24 years as a member of the Crewand afterwards 21 years as Shore Signal-man of the Aberystwyth Life-boat, a Life-boatman's' Certificate of Service and aPension.

To NATHANIEL ENGLAND, on his retirement,after serving 35 years as a member of theCrew of the Padstow Life-boats, A Life-boatman's Certificate of Service.

To WILLIAM H. MITCHELL, on his retirement,after serving HJ years as Second Coxswain,and previously 32 years as a member of theCrew of the Cadgwith Life-boat, a Life-boatman's Certificate of Service and a

'Pension.

To ROBERT DAVIDSON, on his retirement, afterserving 21J years as Coxswain, and pre-viously 6J years as Second Coxswain of theStonehaven Life-boat, a Coxswain's Certifi-cate of Service and a Pension.

To EDWARD J. BEAT-TIE, on his retirement,after serving 10J years as Shore Signalmanof the Falmouth Life-boat, a Pension.

To JOSEPH ARTHUR, on his retirement, afterserving 11J years as Coxswain, 15 years asSecond Coxswain, and previously 1} yearsas Bowman of the Cadgwith Life-boat, aCoxswain's Certificate of Service and aPension.

To PETER BRIEN, on his retirement, afterserving 25J years as Second Coxswain, andpreviously 4 years as a member of the Crewof the Kilmore Life-boat, a Life-boatman'sCertificate of Service and a Pension.

To GEORGE W. MURBELL, on his retirement,after serving 14J years as Coxswain, 8J- yearsas Second Coxswain, and previously 10 yearsas Bowman of the Southend-on-Sea Life-boat,a Coxswain's Certificate of Service and aPension.

To ROBERT THOMSON, on his retirement, afterserving 26 years as Bowman, and previously4 years as a member of the Crew of theBuckhaven Life-boat, a Life-boatman'sCertificate of Service and a Pension.

To JOHN OWEN, on his retirement, afterserving 12J years as Coxswain, 10J yean asSecond Coxswain, and previously 3 yean u

JUNE, 1930.] THE LIFEBOAT. 101Bowman of the Llandudno Life-boat, aCoxswain's Certificate of Service and aPension.

To ARCHIBALD MATHIESON, on his retirement,on the closing of the Station, after serving16J years as Coxswain, 3 years as SecondCoxswain, and previously 12 J years as amember of the Crew of the Southend(Cantyre) Life-boat, a Coxswain's Certificateof Service and a Pension.

To CHARLES GALL, on his retirement, onaccount of ill-health, after serving 15 yearsas Coxswain of the Broughty Ferry Life-boat, a Coxswain's Certificate of Service anda Pension.

To WILLIAM Gn,CH"lST, on his retirement, onthe closing of the Southend (Cantyre)Station, after serving 16J years as SecondCoxswain, and 3 years as Bowman, a Life*boatman's Certificate of Service and aPension. He was in all a member of theCrews of the Southend and CampbeltownLife-boats for 31 years.

To WILLIAM GALBRAITH, on his retirement, onthe closing of the Southend (Cantyre)Station, after serving 16J years as Bowman,a Life-boatman's Certificate of Service and aPension. He was in all a member of theCrews of the Southend and CampbeltownLife-boats for 35 years.

To ALEXANDER JOHNSTONE, who had re-tired after serving 49 years as a member ofthe Crew of the Longhope Life-boat, a Life-boatman's Certificate of Service.

To GEORGE JOHNSTONE, who had retiredafter serving 29 years as a member of the

Crew of the Longhope Life-boat, a Life-boatman's Certificate of Service.

To JAMES HUNTEB, on his retirement, onaccount of ill-health shortly after hisappointment as Coxswain, after serving6J years as Second Coxswain, 6J years asBowman, and previously 23 J years asmember of the Crew of the Port PatrickLife-boat, a Life-boatman's Certificate ofService and a Pension.

To JOHN DUNNET, on his retirement, on theclosing of the Station, after serving 25^ yearsas Bowman, and previously 21J years as amember of the Crew of the Huna Life-boat, aLife-boatman's Certificate of Service and aPension.

To DONALD LAIKD, on his retirement, on theclosing of the Station, after serving 2 yearsas Second Coxswain, and previously 9 yearsas a member of the Crew of the Huna Life-boat, a Life-boatman's Certificate of Service.

Life-boatmen's Certificates of Service havebeen awarded to the following men on theirretirement on the closing of the Huna Life-boat Station, the figure after the names beingtheir years of service :—DONALD GULLOCH (28).ANGUS MoLEOD (24).JOHN SMITH (23).JAMES DUNNET (23).ALEXANDER NICOLSOK (19).JOHN STEVEN (11).

To JOHN R. PARR, on his retirement, afterserving 22 years as a member of the Crew,and afterwards 26 years as Shore-Signalmanof the Blackpool Life-boat, a Life-boatman'sCertificate of Service and a Pension.

Awards to Honorary Workers.Mr. H. C. WHTTEHBAD, has been appointed an

Honorary Life Governor of the Institutionin recognition of the valuable services he hasrendered as Honorary Secretary of theAppledore Life-boat Station for 28 years;and has been presented with a copy of theVote, inscribed on Vellum and signed byH.B.H. The Prince of Wales, K.G., thePresident.

Major ABTHUB WHEWELL has been appointedan Honorary Life Governor of the Institu-tion, in recognition of the distinguished[services which he has rendered to the Life-boat Cause in Dublin for over thirty years,first as a representative of the Irish Districton the Central and Executive Committeesof the Life-boat Saturday Fund, and latterlyas Chairman of the Special Effort Committeeof the City of Dublin Branch of the Institu-tion. H' will be presented with a copy ofthe Vote inscribed on Vellum, and signedby H.R.H. The Prince of Wales, K..G., asPresident.

To the Rev. COTTBTNET SHAW, on his retire-ment, after 20 years' service as Honorary

Secretary of the Brooke Branch, the Thanksof the Institution inscribed on Vellum.

To Capt. L. A. VIDLEB, on his retirement, after18J years' service as Honorary Secretary ofthe Rye Harbour Branch, the Thanks of theInstitution inscribed on Vellum.

To Mr. J. F. GRAHAM, on his retirement, after13 years' service as Honorary Secretary ofthe Walton-on-the-Naze Branch, the Thanksof the Institution inscribed on Vellum ; alsoa Binocular Glass bearing a suitableinscription.

To Mr. R. P. ANDERSON, on his retirement,after 10 years' service as Honorary Secretaryof the New Romney Branch, the Thanks ofthe Institution inscribed on Vellum.

To Mr. LBWIS B. Ross, J.P., in recognition ofhis long and valuable co-operation asHonorary Secretary of the North SunderlandBranch, an Aneroid Barometer, suitablyinscribed.

To Mr. JAMES A. GARDINER, on his retirementafter 30 years as Honorary Secretary of theCampbeltown, Machrihanish and SouthendBranch, with the Thanks of the Institutioninscribed on Vellum.

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To Commander HUBERT B. BOOTHBY, D.S.O.,R.N.R., on his retirement after 19 yearsas Honorary Secretary of the Grimsby andCleethorpes Branch, the Thanks of theInstitution inscribed on Vellum.

To Capt. FRANCIS S. SYMONS, on his retire-ment after 12 years as Honorary Secretaryof the Bamsgate Branch, the Thanks of theInstitution inscribed on Vellum.

To Capt. W. J. OLIVEB, M.C., on his retire-ment after 9 years as Honorary Secretary ofthe Sunderland and District Branch, theThanks of the Institution inscribed onVellum.

In recognition of long and valuable co-opera-tion, Binoculars have been awarded to thefollowing Honorary Secretaries of Life-boatStations:

Mr. W. H. GARDE, J.P. (Ballycotton).Mr. D. KENNEDY (Newcastle, Co. Down).Mr. T. MOLOBEY, Dungorvan Bay).Mr. R. W. MORRIS (Dunmore East).Mr. A. H. TBAHE, M.H.K. (Ramsey, Isle of

Man).

To The Lady FLORENCE PEEY, in recognitionof her valuable co-operation as HonorarySecretary of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild,the Gold Brooch and the Record of Thanks.

To Mr. JOHN T. SWAN, ex-Coxswain of Lowe-stoft, in recognition of his services in Broad-casting a Wireless Appeal from London onthe 2nd March, and in assisting the Institu-tion in other ways, the Gold Pendant andRecord of Thanks.

In recognition of long and valuable co-opera-tion, the Gold Brooch or Pendant and theRecord of Thanks have been awarded tothe following Honorary Officials of Branchesand Guilds and other honorary workers :

Mr. H. P. F. DONEOAN, Honorary Secretary,Cork.

Miss ABIT EDWARDS, Honorary Secretary,Clevedon.

Mrs. GOLWB, Honorary Secretary, Bath.Miss HARVBY, collector, Tenby.Mr. JAMES HENDERSON, Honorary Secretary,

Sheffield.Mrs. F. L. HEYN, President, Holywood.Mrs. HOLDING, Honorary Secretary, Leaming-

ton.Mrs. McMoRRis, Life-boat Day Organiser,

Portrush.

Mrs. ELSIE M. MARKS, J.P., Vioe-President ofLadies' Life-boat Guild, Llandudno.

Miss MORROW, Honorary Secretary, Larne.Mr. A. J. PHILLIPS, for many years Honorary

Secretary and now Chairman, Newport,Mon.

Mrs. ARTHUR REED, Chairman of the Branchand Ladies' Life-boat Guild, Exeter.

Mrs. WALTER, Honorary Secretary, Southamp-ton.

Mrs. B. WOOLHELD, Honorary Secretary,Ladies' Life-boat Guild, Kessingland.

Framed Photographs of a Life-boat going outto a vessel in distress have been awarded tothe following:

Mrs. ALAN CARSON, Honorary Secretary, Holy-wood.

Mrs. DUDLEY, Life-boat Day Worker, Stour-bridge.

Mrs. HILL, Life-boat Day Organiser, Drogheda.Mr. C. HABTLY HODDBR, Honorary Secretary,

Bristol.Miss EDITH JORDAN, Honorary Secretary,

Kenilworth.Mr. DUNCAN MACKINTOSH, Honorary Secretary,

Inverness.LADY NASH, President of the Ladies' Life-boat

Guild, Limerick.Mrs. PEARSON, President, Ennis.Mrs. ROBINSON, Honorary Secretary, Lisburn.Mrs. STEVENS, Honorary Secretary, Woodford

and Epping.Mrs. TABR, Honorary Secretary, Ladies' Life-

boat Guild, Swansea.In recognition of valuable co-operation,

Framed Records of Thanks have beenawarded to the following ladies at Leeds :—Miss E. E. CLARKE.Mrs. B. L. LEIGH.Miss E. M. LISTER.Mrs. E. MARSHALL.Mrs. A. E. H. SMITH.Mrs. E. P. WILLIAMS.

Records of Thanks have been awarded to thefollowing Managers of Birmingham Theatreswho have allowed collections on behalf ofthe Institution:

Mr. F. A. JOLLY, Grand Theatre.Mr. J. W. KELGOUH, Hippodrome Theatre.Mr. H. RAYMOND, Empire Theatre.Mr. L. SALBBRO, Alexandra Theatre.Mr. C. WILLIAMS, Scala Theatre.

Rosslare Harbour: A Correction.Under the picture of the RosslareHarbour Life-boat Crew in the lastissue it should have been stated thatthe photograph had been taken by

Messrs. J. Barrett & Co., of Bannow, Go.Wexford, and was reproduced by theirkind permission.

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Special Gifts.From Mid-Atlantic.

WE have received a denation of ten shillingswith the following letter, which has no otheraddress than " on the Atlantic " :—•

" While a passenger on the Freighter BabyCastle, I have read with interest your Journal,and as I see that you do not despise the dayof small things, I would like to add this smalldonation to your fund for the Institution.With great admiration."

One Week's Old Age Pension.An anonymous gift has come with the

message, " Enclosed please find Treasury notefor 10s., one week's O.A.P."

From a Dead Midshipman.A lady in Berkshire has sent a gift of old

coins which she found when going throughsome things belonging to her brother who hadbeen drowned in the Bay of Tunis in 1864,when serving as a midshipman.

From a Volunteer Life-boatman.Sergeant Duignan, of the Civic Guard in the

Irish Free State, went out as a member of theCrew of the Life-boat at Skerries, Co. Dublin,on the night of 24th November, 1929, whenshe rescued the crew of four of the ketch Ivy P.,of Ipswich. He was sent the same award,£1 17*. 6d., which was given to the othermembers of the Crew, but returned it as adonation to the Institution.

From the Chocolate Firms.A gift of ninety tins of chocolate has been

received from Messrs. Cadbury, Messrs. Fry,and Messrs. Rowntree. All Life-boats carrychocolate for the use of the rescued, and as anemergency ration for the Life-boat Crews

themselves, and each year each of these threefirms presents thirty tins as its contribution tothe Life-boat Service.

From the Sale of Christmas Cards.A lady in Essex, besides her annual sub-

scription of one guinea, has sent £1 4s. &d., theproiit made by the sale of Christmas cards andcalendars. She hopes to do the same againnext Christmas, and to send still more.

From Boys and Girls.We have had a number of very touching

gifts from boys and girls.The Brownies of the 6th Crouch End Pack

have sent a gift from their Farthing Fund.The Petersfield (Hampshire) Junior School

have sent a gift out of their own ChristmasParty Fund.

The boys of Raywood Street L.C.C. School,Battersea, after hearing, in the Essay Com-petition Lecture, that \^d. per head of ourpopulation was needed to maintain the Life-boats, themselves proposed having a " whipround " for the Life-boats.

The children of Barnton Brunner CouncilSchool, Northwich, Cheshire, also held acollection, in which the staff joined, when theyheard that if every one gave IJd. a year itwould maintain the whole Service.

The boys of Bedford Junior School havetaken the Lowestoft Life-boat Station undertheir special protection, and have sent severalgifts to the Honorary Secretary.

The boys of Heath Brow School, HemelHempstead, after hearing a lecture by Mr.Greene, the Honorary Secretary at Herne Bay,made a collection among themselves, although,as is the rule with all lectures to schools, noappeal was made.

Gifts from Crews.ON the 4th February, 1928, the Bamsgate

Motor Life-boat helped to save the steamtrawler Cyclone, of Boulogne, and rescue hercrew, sixteen in number. Out of the salvagemoney received for their services the Crewhave given the Institution £5.

* * * * *On the 21st March, 1929, the Longhope

Motor Life-boat saved the schooner J. H.Barrow, of Lancaster, and rescued her crew offour. Salvage money was received by theLife-boat Crew, and they have given £3 14».as a donation to the Institution.

* * * * *On the 3rd September, 1929, the Clacton-on-

Sea Motor Life-boat saved the motor launchPrincess Olga, of Burnham-on-Crouch, andrescued her crew of three. The Life-boat Crewreceived salvage and out of this have made adonation of £1 Is. to the Institution.

* * * * *On the 3rd November, 1929, the Bamsgate

Motor Life-boat rendered assistance to the

s.8. Llandilo, of London, when she stranded onthe Goodwin Sands. Salvage money wasreceived by the Life-boat Crew, and they havegiven £2 10*. to the Institution.

On the 26th November, 1929, the Angle Life-boat Crew rescued twenty-eight survivors fromthe s.s. Molesey, of London, which was wreckedon the coast of Pembrokeshire. The Coxswainand Crew received donations in appreciationof their services, and gave to the Institution£1 out of the money so received.

On the 16th and the 18t'i March, 1930, theWalton-on-the-Naze Motor Life-boat—no othersuitable boat being available—took outLloyd's Agent and others to the s.s. Ament, ofSunderlaud, which had been wrecked on theLong Sand. The Crew gave a donation of£2 to the funds of the Institution outof the payments they received for these ser-vices.

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News from1st January

Greater London.CHELSEA.—Address to the Rotary

Club by the District Organizing Secre-tary.

CHINGFORD (ESSEX).—Bridge andWhist Drive. Address by the AssistantDistrict Organizing Secretary.

CBOYDON (SURREY).—Special meeting,with the Mayor presiding. Speaker:Colonel The Master of Sempill, a Memberof the Committee of Management.

DEPTFORD.-—St. Catherine's Fellow-ship. Talk by Mr. Norton.

FINCHLEY.—Whist Drive.FULHAM.—Life-boat Day.HAMMERSMITH. — Special meeting,

with the Mayor presiding. Speaker:Colonel The Master of Sempill, a Memberof the Committee of Management.

HAREFIELD (MIDDLESEX).—Concert,with Lantern Lecture by the DistrictOrganizing Secretary.

HORNSEY.—Address to the RotaryClub by the District Organizing Secre-tary.

MITCHAM (SURREY).—Drawing-roomMeeting. Branch formed.

NEW MALDEN (SURREY).—Address tothe Rotary Club by the District Organiz-ing Secretary.

SUTTON (SURREY).—Life-boat Dayand Theatrical Performance with talkby the District Organizing Secretary.

Bridge Drive.TWICKENHAM (SURREY).—Address to

the Rotary Club by the District Organiz-ing Secretary.

WALTHAMSTOW (ESSEX). — Concert.Address by the District OrganizingSecretary.

WESTMINSTER.—Presentation of theLondon District Challenge Shield andCertificates in the Life-boat Essay Com-petition by Major-General the Rt. Hon.J. E. B. Seely, C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O., aMember of the Committee of Manage-ment, with the Mayor of Westminsterpresiding. (A full report appeared in thelast issue of The Lifeboat.) Wardrobesale.

WOODFORD AND EPPING (ESSEX).—It was stated in the last issue that the

the Branches.to 31st March.

Annual Meeting of the Woodford Ladies'Life-boat Guild had been held, theamount collected being £280 as com-pared with £176 in the previous year.This should have been "Woodfordand Epping " Guild.

Sixteen lectures and addresses weregiven by the District Organizing Secre-tary during the quarter in addition tothose mentioned.

North-West of England.ACCRINGTON (LANCS.)—Annual Meet-

ing on the 19th February. Amountcollected last year £183, as comparedwith £150 in the previous year.

Whist Drive, arranged by the Ladies'Life-boat Guild.

BLACKPOOL (LANCS.)—Annual Meet-ing of the Branch held on the 6th March.Amount collected last year £594, as com-pared with £560 in the previous year.

Bridge and Whist Drive, organized bythe Ladies' Life-boat Guild.

BOLTON (LANCS.)—American Supper,arranged by the Ladies' Life-boat Guild.

BURNLEY (LANCS.)—Annual Meetingon 24th January. Amount collected lastyear £36, as compared with £140 in theprevious year.

CARLISLE (CUMBERLAND). — AnnualMeeting on 7th February, the DeputyMayor (Mr. T. G. Charlton) in the chair.Amount collected last year £328, ascompared with £297 in the previousyear.

Whist Drive.CARNFORTH (LANCS.)—Annual Meet-

ing on 21st January. Amount collectedlast year £93, as compared with £73 inthe previous year.

Whist Drive.COLNE (LANCS.).—Whist Drive and

Dance.COPPULL (LANCS.)—Annual Concert

given by the Blackpool" Unity Singers."DUKINFIELD (CHESHIRE). — Whist

Drive and Dance in the Town Hall.HINDLEY (LANCS.)—Annual Meeting

on 12th March. Amount collected lastyear £79.

Whist Drive. Carnival Dance.H O L L I N G W O R T H (CHESHIRE).—

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Annual Meeting on 28th January.Amount collected last year £66, ascompared with £62 in the previous year.

Annual Dance.HORWICH (LANCS.)—House-to-House

Collection.KENDAL (CUMBERLAND).—Whist and

Bridge Drive.LANCASTER. •— Annual Meeting on

26th March. Amount collected lastyear £173, the same amount as in theprevious year.

Collection at the Football Ground.Cinema Collection. Jumble Sale.

LITTLEBOROUGH (LANCS.) — CinemaCollections.

LIVERPOOL.—Annual Meeting on 4thMarch, Mr. Charles Livingston, DeputyChairman, presiding in the absence ofthe Lord Mayor. Amount collected lastyear £3,346, as compared with £4,342in the previous year.

Bootle.—Service of Seamen at ChristChurch, attended by members ofthe New Brighton Life-boat Crew.

Wallasey.—Annual Whist Drive andDance, arranged by the WallaseyLadies' Swimming Club.

Rock Ferry.—Life-Boat Service onboard H.M. Training Ship Conway.

New Brighton.—Annual Meeting on6th March. Crew entertained todinner by the Committee.

MACCLESFIELD (CHESHIRE).—AnnualMeeting on 25th March, the Mayor,President of the Branch, in the chair.Amount collected last year £132, ascompared with £146 in the previous year.

MANCHESTER, SALFORD AND DISTRICT.•—Annual Meeting on the 12th Februaryat the Manchester Town Hall, the LordMayor, President of the Branch, in thechair. Principal speaker : Sir GodfreyBaring, Bt., Chairman of the Committeeof Management of the Institution.Among those present were : the Mayorand Mayoress of Salford, the Very Rev.the Dean .of Manchester, Mr. SaulAdler, President of the Great Syna-gogue, Mr. E. G. D. Liveing, M.A.,North Regional Director of the BritishBroadcasting Corporation, and Mr.Cuming Walters, Editor of the Man-chester City News. Amount collectedlast year £3,973, as compared with

£4,362 in the previous year. CaptainW. C. Bacon was appointed Chairmanof the Branch in succession to the lateSir William Milligan, and the LadyMayoress of Manchester gave afternoontea to the assembly.

Operatic Production " The CabaretGirl" given by the South ManchesterOperatic (Amateur) Society at theOpera House.

Blackley.—-Special Meeting. Ladies'Life-boat Guild formed.

Cheadle Hulme.—Christmas Day col-lection in the Parish Church.

Fallowfield.—Junior Guild Social.Lantern Lecture at St. Chad's,Fallowfield, given by the AssistantSecretary.

Old TrafEord.—Annual Dance.Prestwich.—" Household Shower and

Pedlar's Fair," arranged by theLadies' Life-boat Guild. Miss MonaVivian opened the proceedings, andthe Chairman of the Council,Councillor J. Rowlands, J.P., wasin the chair. A special feature ofthe afternoon was a MannequinParade arranged by Madame GraceLord.

Sale and Brooklands.—Bridge Drive,arranged by the Ladies' Life-boatGuild.

Hulme.—Special Meeting. Ladies'Life-boat Guild formed.

Salford.—Annual Meeting of theLadies' Life-boat Guild on 27thMarch. Amount collected last year£58, as compared with £43 in theprevious year.

Swinton and Pendlebury.—SpecialMeeting. Ladies' Life-boat Guildreconstituted.

NORTHWICH (CHESHIRE). — AnnualMeeting on llth March. Amount col-lected last year £110, as compared with£177 in the previous year.

OLDHAM (LANCS.).—Annual Meetingon 10th February. Amount collectedlast year £295, as compared with £323in the previous year.

Whist Drive and Dance in the TownHall, arranged by the Ladies' Life-boatGuild.

PIEL (BARROW) (LANCS.).—Concertgiven by the Shipyard Orchestral

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Society, arranged by the Ladies' Life-boat Guild. Whist Drive.

EISHTON (LANCS.).—Annual Ball.KOCHDALE (LANCS.).—Annual Meet-

ing on 22nd January. Amount collectedlast year £138, as compared with £125in the previous year.

ST. ANNES-ON-SEA (LANCS.).—AnnualMeeting on 14th March. Amount col-lected last year £127, as compared with£124 in the previous year.

STANDISH (LANCS.).—Whist Drive.TOTTINGTON (LANCS.).—Whist Drive.TKAWDEN (LANCS.).—Whist Drive and

Dance.TYLDESLEY (LANCS.).—American Tea,

organized by the Ladies' Life-boat Guild.WAREINGTON (LANCS.). — Annual

Meeting on 19th March, the Mayor,President of the Branch, in the chair.Amount collected last year £256, ascompared with £264 in the previous year.

WHALEY BRIDGE (CHESHIRE).—Dramatic Performance given by theWhaley Bridge Play Club.

WIGAN (LANCS.).—Life-boat Day.WORKINGTON (CUMBERLAND).—An-

nual Dance.

North-East of England.BARNSLEY (YoRKS.)—Annual Meet-

ing. Special Efforts of the past year:Dance, Life-boat Day. Amount col-lected last year £70, as compared with£118 in the previous year.

Children's Ball.BEDLINGTON (NORTHUMBERLAND).—

Whist Drive.BERWICK-ON-TWEED.—Whist Drives

and Dance. Annual Supper to theLife-boat Crew, given by the Committee.

BLYTH (NORTHUMBERLAND).—AnnualMeeting on 31st March, the Mayor,President of the Branch, in the chair.Special Efforts of the past year: Sale ofWork, Whist Drive and Special Appeal.Amount collected last year £383, as com-pared with £371 in the previous year.

The Annual Meeting of the Ladies'Life-boat Guild, the Mayoress, Presidentof the Guild, in the chair, was held onthe same day.

BRADFORD AND DISTRICT.-—AnnualMeeting on 21st January, the Deputy

Lord Mayor presiding. Special Effortsof past year : Life-boat Day, Matine'e,Concert. Amount collected last year£1,835, as compared with £1,941 in theprevious year.

BRIDLINGTON (YoRKS.). — AnnualMeeting of the Ladies' Life-boat Guildon 14th March, the Mayoress, Presidentof the Guild, in the chair. SpecialEfforts of the past year : Organ Day,Concert and Whist Drives. Amountcollected last year £84, as comparedwith £125 in the previous year.

Whist Drive and Dance organized byMrs. Squire. Sunday Concert and Life-boat Play.

CAWTHORNE (YORKS.).—Whist Drive.CRESSWELL (NORTHUMBERLAND).—

Whist Drive and Dance.DARLINGTON (DURHAM).—Afternoon

Tea given by Mrs. Freeman. WhistDrive.

DONCASTER.—Annual Meeting of theLadies' Life-boat Guild on 5th March,the Mayoress, President of the Guild, inthe chair. Special Efforts of the pastyear : Special Appeal, Life-boat Day.Amount collected last year £98.

DRIFFIELD (YORKS.).—Whist Drive.HALIFAX (YoRKS.).—Sunday Concert.HECKMONDWIKE (YORKS.).—Bridge

Drive.LEEDS AND DISTRICT.—Annual Meet-

ing on 9th January, the Deputy LordMayor presiding. Speakers : Sir God-frey Baring, Bt., Chairman of the Com-mittee of Management, Mr. George P.Shee, M.A., Secretary of the Institution.Special Efforts of past year : EnvelopeAppeals, Life-boat Day, Matinee.Amount collected last year £1,231, ascompared with £1,124 in the previousyear. Presentations to honorary workersby Sir Godfrey Baring.

Address by Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt.,at Sunday afternoon women's meetingat Cromwell Hall, at which between500 and 600 women were present.

Whist and Bridge Drives.MARKET WEIGHTON (YORKS.).—Whist

Drives and Drawing-room meeting,organized by the Ladies' Life-boat Guild.

MELTHAM (YORKS.).—Meeting to re-vive Ladies' Life-boat Guild.

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NEWBURN-ON-TYNE (NORTHUMBER-LAND).—Jumble Sale.

ROTHERHAM AND DISTRICT (YORKS.).—Annual Meeting on 28th March, theMayor, Patron of the Branch, presiding.Special Effort of the past year: Life-boat Day. Amount collected last year£158, as compared with £213 in the pre-vious year.

SALTBURN (YORKS.).—Annual Meet-ing, the Rev. F. L. B. Knight, B.A.,presiding. Special Efforts of the pastyear: Concert, Mile of Pennies, Life-boat Day. Amount collected last year£77, as compared with £117 in the pre-vious year.

Vaudeville Entertainment.SCARBOROUGH (YORKS.). — Sunday

Concert. Whist and Bridge Drive.SEAHAM (DURHAM).—Children's Ball

and Whist Drive.SELBY (YORKS.).—Annual Dance.SKELMANTHORPE AND SCISSETT

(YoRKS.).—Whist Drive and Dance.SPENBOHOUGH (YORKS.).—Drawing-

room Meeting. Bring-and-Buy Sale.STAINLAND, GRBETLAND AND WEST

VALE (YoRKS.).—Bridge Drive given byMrs. Marshall. Bridge Drive given byMrs. Rothwell.

STOCKTON AND THORNABY (DURHAM).—Annual Meeting of Ladies' Life-boatGuild. Amount collected last year £143,as compared with £171 in the previousyear. Special Efforts of the past year :Ball, ,Whist Drive and Dance and Life-boat Day.

TYNEMOUTH (NORTHUMBERLAND).—Annual Meeting, the Rt. Hon. WalterRunciman, M.P., a Member of theCommittee of Management, presiding.Special Efforts of the past year : WhistDrives, Shipping Appeal, Life-boat Day.Amount collected last year £205, ascompared with £395 in the previousyear.

Whist Drive. Annual Supper andConcert to Life-boat Crew, given byLadies' Life-boat Guild.

WAKEFIELD (YORKS.).—Concert inPlayhouse Theatre.

WEST HARTLEPOOL (DURHAM).—Annual Meeting on 6th March, the

Mayoress, President of the Guild, in thechair. Special Efforts of the past year :Whist Drives, Life-boat Day. Amountcollected last year £117, as comparedwith £107 in the previous year.

Whist Drive.

Midlands.

ALFRETON (DERBYSHIRE).—Children'sParty.

BIRMINGHAM.—Annual Meeting on4th March, the Lord Mayor, Presidentof the Branch, in the chair. Speaker :Mr. George F. Shee, M.A., Secretary ofthe Institution. Special Efforts of thepast year: Life-boat Day, Two Dances,Whist Drives, Theatre, Cinema andSchool Collections. Amount collectedlast year £2,428, as compared with£1,513 in the previous year.

Collection during week at TheatreRoyal. One week's Collection atEmpire Theatre. Life-boat Ball atTony's Ballroom. Three BroadcastAddresses by the District OrganizingSecretary. Whist Drive at Water Orton.

BLAKENEY (GLOS.).—Branch formed,Hon. Secretary, Mrs. G. Edwards.

BRISTOL.—Annual Meeting on 12thMarch. The Lord Mayor, Patron ofthe Branch, in the chair. Speakers:Mr. F. 0. Wills, Chairman of theBranch, Mrs. Hartly-Hodder, Hon.Secretary of the Ladies' Guild, and theDistrict Organizing Secretary. SpecialEfforts of the past year : Life-boat Day,Dance, Whist Drives. Amount collectedlast year £1,195, as compared with£1,142 in the previous year. Presenta-tion, by the Lord Mayor, of FramedPhotograph awarded by the Institutionto Mr. Hartly-Hodder, the Hon. Secre-tary of the Branch.

Lantern lectures and address given inmany of the schools by the DistrictOrganizing Secretary.

BURTON-ON-TRENT (STAFFS.)—AnnualMeeting on 12th February, Mrs. Morris,President of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild,in the chair. Speaker: the DistrictOrganizing Secretary. Special Effortsof the past year : Life-boat Day, House-to-House collection. Amount collectedlast year £268, as compared with £177in the previous year. Presentation of

108 THE LIFEBOAT. [JUNE, 1930.

Framed Photograph awarded by theInstitution to Mr. W. Vaughan, Hon.Secretary of the Branch.

COALVILLE (LEics.). — Branch re-vived. Hon. Secretary, Mrs. Gut-teridge.

DAVENTRY (NOKTHANTS.).—Concertarranged by Mrs. Luck, the Hon.Secretary.

DEOITWICH (Woncs.).—Dance.GRIMSBY (LiNcs.).—Dance.

KIDDERMINSTER (WoRCS.).—AnnualMeeting, the Deputy Mayor in thechair. Speaker : the District OrganizingSecretary. Special Efforts of the pastyear: Life-boat Day, Whist Drives.Amount collected last year £68, ascompared with £155 in the previousyear.

LICHFIELD (STAFFS.)—Whist Driveand Dance.

LYE (WoRCS.). — Branch formed.Hon. Secretary, Mrs. Cook.

NEW MILLS (DERBYSHIRE).—Addressby the District Organizing Secretary ata meeting of the Medical CharitiesCommittee.

NUNEATON (WARWICK.).—Collectionsin Scala Picture Theatre.

OWSTON FERRY (LiNcs.).—-Branchformed. Hon. Secretary, Miss E.Leggott. Entertainment.

PETERBOROUGH (NORTHANTS.).—Annual Meeting on 12th March, Mr.H. B. Hartley in the chair. Speaker,Mr. George F. Shee, M.A., Secretary ofthe Institution. Special Effort of thepast year: Life-boat Day. Amountcollected last year £220, as comparedwith £133 in previous year.

EUGBY.—Dance.RUGELEY (STAFFS.).—Life-boat Ball.RUSHDEN (NORTHANTS.).—Branch re-

vived. Hon. Secretary, Miss E.Hawkins.

SCOTHERN (LiNcs.).—Branch formed.Hon. Secretary, Miss M. F. Menzies.Whist Drive and Dance.

STROUD (GLOS.). — Drawing-roommeeting. Address by the DistrictOrganizing Secretary.

TOWCESTER (NORTHANTS.).—Ladies'Life-boat Guild formed. Hon. Secre-tary, Mrs. Whitton.

WARWICK.—Life-boat Day ; DistrictOrganizing Secretary spoke at theTheatre.

WOLVERHAMPTON (STAFFS.).—Dance.

WOODHALL SPA (LiNcs.).—FancyDress Carnival and Dance.

Nine lectures and addresses were given"by the District Organizing Secretaryduring the quarter in addition to thosementioned.

South-East of England.ALDEBURGH (SUFFOLK).—Lecture at

Harleston by Mr. W. Riggs, Hon.Secretary.

ASHFORD (KENT).—Lecture by Mrs.Johnson Smyth, Hon. Secretary atCanterbury.

BIRCHINGTON (KENT).—Special meet-ing. Address by the District OrganizingSecretary. Branch formed. Hon. Secre-tary, Mrs. L. K. Martin.

CAMBRIDGE.—Special Appeal in thePress, signed by the Mayor, Mrs. Giles,President of the Branch, and MissAckers, Honorary Secretary.

CANTERBURY (KENT).—Annual Meet-ing, the Mayor presiding. Speaker : theDistrict Organizing Secretary. Amountcollected last year £146, as comparedwith £141 in the previous year.

House-to-House Collection.Lectures to Welfare Clinic, Women's

Adult School, and other bodies, by Mrs.Johnson Smyth, Hon. Secretary of theBranch.

CHATHAM (KENT).—Branch formed.Hon. Secretary, Lieut. W. C. Butten-shaw, R.N. (Ret.).

CUCKFIELD AND HiYWARDS HEATH(SUSSEX). — Branch formed. Hon.Secretary, Miss Diana Turner. Lectureat Lindfield Women's Institute byDistrict Organizing Secretary.

DARTFORD (KENT).—Whist Drive,and films shown at Cinema.

Diss (NORFOLK).—Lecture by Mr. W.Riggs, Hon. Secretary at Aldeburgh.

DOVER (KENT).—Address to RotaryClub by Captain Guy Fanshawe, R.N.,

JUNE, 1930.] THE LIFEBOAT. 109

a Member of the Committee of Manage-ment of the Institution.

DUNGENESS (KENT).—Presentation ofthe Bronze Medal awarded to CoxswainDouglas Oilier, and the Vellums awardedto the Crew for the service to the bargeMarie May, on llth November, 1929.Address by Captain Holloway, O.B.E.,E.D., R.N.R., a Member of the Com-mittee of Management of the Institution.

FOLKESTONE (KENT).—Annual Meet-ing. Amount raised last year £461, ascompared with £353 in the previousyear.

Lectures at Folkestone Women'sGuild, Beachborough Park School, Sea-brook Hall School, Morehall School,Cheriton Women's Guild, Kent Collegeand Women's Section of the BritishLegion at Folkestone. Bridge Drive.

GOSFIELD (ESSEX).—Whist Drive.

GRAYS (ESSEX).Films at Cinemas.

Life-boat Day.

GT. YARMOUTH (NORFOLK).—AnnualMeeting. Amount collected last year£386, as compared with £422 in the pre-vious year.

GUILDFORD (SURREY). — House-to-House Collection in villages.

HAWKHURST (SUSSEX). — Rangers'Entertainment.

HERNE BAY (KENT).—Lecture byMr. C. J. Greene, Hon. Secretary.

HERTFORD (HERTS.).—Address toRotary Club by District OrganizingSecretary.

HYTHE (KENT).—Presentation of theSilver Medal awarded to Coxswain H.Griggs, Jun., and the Vellums awardedto the Crew for the service to the bargeMarie May on llth November, 1929.

LEATHERHEAD (SURREY). — Dance,organized by the Headley Women'sInstitute.

LEIGHTON BUZZARD (BEDS.).—Branchformed. Hon. Secretary, Miss Brown.

LITTLEHAMPTON (SUSSEX).—Concert,and presentation to Commander H. B.Boothby, D.S.O., R.N.R., late HonorarySecretary at Grimsby, by Brig.-Gen. SirArthur Allen-Williams, K.B.E., C.M.G.,M.I.C.E.

MARGATE (KENT).—Annual Meeting,the Mayor, President of the Branch, inthe chair. Amount collected last year£817, as compared with £775 in the pre-vious year.

MlDHURST AND DISTRICT (SUSSEX).—Branch formed. Hon. Secretary, Mrs.Denys Johnson.

NEWPORT PAGNELL (BUCKS.). —Branch formed. Hon. Secretary, MissP. Taylor.

NEW ROMNEY (KENT).—Presentationto Mr. R. P. Anderson, Hon. Secretaryof the Branch, by the District OrganizingSecretary, of the Thanks of the Institu-tion inscribed on Vellum.

NORWICH (NORFOLK).—Jumble Sale.RAMSGATE (KENT).—Dance.REIGATE AND REDHILL (SURREY).—

Bridge Drive.SAFFRON WALDEN (ESSEX). —Branch

formed. Hon. Secretary, Miss Bell.SANDWICH (KENT).—Ladies' Life-boat

Guild formed. Hon. Secretary, Mrs.Bertram Baker. Lecture by Mrs.Johnson-Smyth, Hon. Secretary atCanterbury.

SHOREHAM (SUSSEX).—Ladies' Life-boat Guild formed. Hon. Secretary,Miss Ledger.

SLOUGH (BUCKS.).—Lecture by MissTruman, Hon. Secretary.

SOUTHWICK (SUSSEX).—Dance orga-nized by Ladies' Life-boat Guild.

THETFORD (NORFOLK).—Entertain-ment.

TUNBRIDGE WELLS (KENT).—Lectureat Rose Hill School.

WADHURST (SUSSEX). — Branchformed. Hon. Secretary, Mr. G. A.Wilkins.

WALTON-ON-THAMES (SURREY). —Life-boat Day.

WEYBRIDGE (SURREY). — Life-boatDay.

WOKING (SURREY).—Concert by Chid-dingfold Players.

WORTHING (SUSSEX) .—Annual GeneralMeeting, the Mayor presiding. Speaker :Mr. George F. Shee, M.A., Secretary ofthe Institution. Amount collected last

110 THE LIFEBOAT. [JUNE, 1930.

year £686, as compared with £546 in theprevious year.

South-West of England.ANDOVER (HANTS).—Life-boat Day,

arranged by Mrs. Cole, at Whitchurch.BATH (SOMERSET).—The Earl and

Countess Waldegrave's Matinee at theTheatre Royal: " The Cassilis Engage-ment." Lady Waldegrave presentedthe Gold Badge awarded by the In-stitution to Mrs. George Goldie, theHon. Secretary.

BRIDPOET (DORSET).—Annual Meet-ing on 10th May, the Mayor presiding.Speaker : The District Organizing Secre-tary. Amount collected last year £84.Miss Sadleir elected Hon. Secretary.

EXETER (DEVON).—Annual Meeting,the Mayor, Vice-President of the Branch,in the chair. Speakers : Sir GodfreyBaring, Bt., Chairman of the Committeeof Management of the Institution, andthe Rev. the Earl of Devon, Presidentof the Branch. Special Efforts for theyear: Appeals, Life-boat Day, Com-petitions, Stalls, Dance given by theExeter Butchers' Association, WhistDrive, Bridge Drives, and four theatricalperformances arranged by Mrs. Gamble.Amount collected last year £745, ascompared with £609 in the previousyear. Sir Godfrey Baring presented theGold Badge, which had been awardedby the Institution to Mrs. Arthur Reed,Chairman of the Branch and of theLadies' Life-boat Guild. In Mrs. Reed'sabsence on account of illness, the badgewas received by Mr. Reed.

OXFORD.—Annual Meeting on 7thFebruary, at Corpus Christi College, thePresident of Corpus Christi presiding.Speaker: Sir Godfrey Baring Bt., Chair-man of the Committee of Managementof the Institution. Amount collectedlast year £680, as compared with £660in the previous year. Presentation ofcertificate won by a pupil of the CowleySchool in the Life-boat Essay Competi-tion.

PAIGNTON (DEVON).—Whist Drive,organized by the Ladies' Life-boatGuild.

PORTSMOUTH (HANTS). — SpecialMeeting summoned by the Lady

Mayoress, with the Lord Mayor pre-siding, to develop the work of theLadies' Life-boat Guild. Speakers:Mrs. Pollard, Chairman of the Guild,and the District Organizing Secretary.New members enrolled.

SALISBURY (WILTS.).—Social at WestMoors.

SOUTHAMPTON (HANTS). — AnnualMeeting, the Mayor, President of theBranch, in the chair. Speaker: SirGodfrey Baring, Bt., Chairman of theCommittee of Management of theInstitution. Special Efforts : Life-boatDay : Theatrical Performance. Amountcollected last year £760, as comparedwith £778 in the previous year. SirGodfrey Baring presented the GoldBadge awarded by the Institution toMrs. Walter, the Hon. Secretary.

Performance of " Tons of Money " bythe Blenheim Players.

SWINDON (WILTS.).—Annual Meeting,the Mayor presiding. Speaker: theDistrict Organizing Secretary. Amountcollected last year £64.

TAUNTON (SOMERSET).—District Con-ference. (See special report on p. 90.)

THAME (OxoN.).—Annual Meeting.Speaker : Mr. C. J. Greene, Hon. Secre-tary of the Herne Bay Branch. Amountcollected last year £125, as comparedwith £132 in the previous year. " QShips " film shown; about 500 peoplewere present.

TOTNES (DEVON).—Special Meeting,the Mayor presiding, and display offilms. Speaker : Lieut. Col. C. R. Satter-thwaite, O.B.E., R.E., Deputy Secretaryof the Institution.

TRURO (CORNWALL).—District Con-ference. (See special report on p. 90.)

WARMINSTER (WILTS.).—Display ofLife-boat Films arranged by theWomen's Section of the British Legion.Address by the District OrganizingSecretary.

WEYMOUTH (DORSET).—Concert bythe " Dorchester Follies."

Scotland.

ABERDEEN.—Annual Meeting on 1stFebruary. The Lord Provost, President

JUNE, 1930.] THE LIFEBOAT. inof the Branch, in the chair. Speaker:Colonel the Master of Sempill, a Memberof the Committee of Management.Amount collected last year £757, ascompared with £736 in the previousyear.

AEBROATH (FORFARSHIRE).—AnnualMeeting on 5th March, Captain A. S.Edward in the chair. Amount collectedlast year £35, as compared with £123in the previous year.

BATHGATE (LINLITHGOW.) .—Life-boatDay.

DUNFERMLINE (FiFE.).—Whist Driveand Dance, arranged by the localCommittee.

EDINBURGH.—Ball, arranged by theEdinburgh Ladies' Life-boat Guild, heldby the kind permission of the Marquisand Marchioness of Linlithgow at Hope-toun House, South Queensferry.

Whist Drive given by Lodge Dal-housie 720, at the request of Mrs. Core-Greenshields, Vice-President of theLadies' Life-boat Guild.

Three Lantern Lectures by CaptainA. S. Balfour, O.B.E., a member of theEdinburgh Committee.

FALKIRK (STIRLINGSHIRE) .—Life-boatDay.

GLASGOW.—Whist Drive on board thes.s. California, by kind permission ofthe Anchor Line, arranged by the Ladies'Life-boat Guild.

Four performances by the AnderstonChurch Operatic Society of " Our MissGibbs/' arranged by the Glasgow Com-mittee and the Ladies' Life-boat Guild.

KEITH (BANFF.).—-Lantern Lectureby the Eev. Kenneth J. Cameron.

KIRKCUDBRIGHT.—Annual Meeting on24th January. Sir Charles Hope Dun-bar, President of the Branch, in thechair. Speakers : Admiral Sir Alex.L. Duff and the Organizing Secretary forScotland. Amount collected last year£128, as compared with £137 in theprevious year. Ladies' Life-boat Guildformed, Officers appointed, and fiftymembers joined the Guild.

NEWBURGH (ABBBDEENSHIEE). —

Fancy Dress Ball, arranged by theLadies' Life-boat Guild.

PETERHEAD (ABERDEENSHIRE).—Sun-day Concert, arranged by the localCommittee and Ladies' Life-boat Guild.Address by the Organizing Secretaryfor Scotland.

ROTHESAY.—Public Meeting, BailieBrown presiding. Ladies' Life-boatGuild formed for the Isle of Bute.Address by the Organizing Secretaryfor Scotland.

WICK (CAITHNESS-SHIRE). — AnnualProcession on behalf of the local Hospitaland Life-boat Fund.

Six lectures were given during thequarter by the Organizing Secretaryfor Scotland, in addition to those men-tioned.

Ireland.BANDON (CORK).—Ladies' Life-boat

Guild formed. Life-boat Day. Dance.BANGOR (Co. DOWN).—Annual Meet-

ing, Councillor Bowman presiding.Speakers : The Bishop of Kilmore, andthe District Organizing Secretary.Amount collected last year £129, ascompared with £112 in the previousyear.

BELFAST.—Popular Ball. Children'sParty. At both functions Lady Dixon,D.B.E., first Vice-President of the Bel-fast Ladies' Life-boat Guild, and theLady Mayoress (Lady Coates) receivedthe guests.

CLONMEL (TIPPERARY). — Life-boatDay.

KILLORGLIN (KERRY).—Whist Drive.MULLINGAR ( WESTMEATH) .—Drawing-

room Meeting, with Mrs. Hannin pre-siding. Speaker : the District Organiz-ing Secretary. Branch formed.

NENAGH (Co. TIPPERARY).—Life-boatDay.

NORTH-WEST MEATH.—Four VillageConcerts, with short lectures on Life-boat work.

ROSCREA (TIPPERARY). — SpecialMeeting, with Mrs. Murray presiding.Speaker : the District Organizing Secre-tary.

(Continued on page 116.)

112 THE LIFEBOAT. [JUNE, 1930'

Income and Expenditure for 1929.Life-boats:- EXPENDITURE. £ ,. d. £ „. a.

New Life-boats for the following stations :—On account—Angle, Ballycotton, Berwick-on-Tweed, Campbel-town, Clacton, Courtmacsherry, Cromarty, Dover,Fishguard, Fowey, Holyhead, Humber, Hythe,Moelfre, Newhaven, Padstow, Port Patrick, St.Mary's (Scilly), St. Peter Port (Guernsey), Selsey,Stornoway, Tenby, Troon, Weymouth, etc. . 105,997

Upkeep of Office and Store at Cowes . . . 212Alterations and Repairs of Life-boats, etc. . . 11,271Payments on Maintenance of Steam Life-boat and Tug 186Consulting Naval Architect . . . . . 4 0 6Salaries and allowances of Inspectors and Surveyors

of Machinery, Surveyors of Life-boats, AssistantSurveyors, Draughtsmen, and Clerks (31 persons) . 9,601

Travelling Expenses . . . . . . 2,395Pensions a n d gratuity . . . . . . 5!)0Contributions to Superannuation and Provident Fund 171

Life-boat Carriages and Tractors, viz. : -New Tractors, etc. 9,408 19 11Repairs to Tractors 231 4 4Alterations and Repairs of Life-boat Carriages . . 158 19 4Salaries and allowances of Assistant Inspector and

Assistant Surveyor (2 persons) . . . . 634 15 6Travelling Expenses 486 8 1Contributions to Superannuation and Provident Fund 36 14 9

Life-boat Houses and Slipways, including Engineers'charges . . . . . . . .

Life-boat StoresLife-boat Storeyard at Poplar, including Taxes, Insur-

ance a n d Repairs . . . . . . 2,504 1 0 4Salaries and allowances of Deputy Chief Inspector

for Stores, Storekeeper and Clerks (17 persons),and Wages of Manual Workers (56 persons) . 13,051 19 0

Pensions and gratuity . . . . . 273 16 3Contributions to Superannuation and Provident Fund 46 3 10

1 04 47 73 10

14 7

8 1110 219 15 2

130,832 14 8

10,957 1 11

36,656 8 322,407 1 3

Payments in connexion with Life-boat Stations,such as Repainting and other Small Repairs toLife-boats, Life-boat Carriages, and Life-boatHouses, done locally, Conveyance of Boats,Carriages, Stores, Postages, etc. . . . 12,571 13 4

Station Centenary Expenses . . . . . 17 1 3Salaries of Assistant Secretaries, etc., of Stations

(17 persons) 243 19 7

Sundry remittances to Station Branch expended, forwhich no detailed accounts received

Life-boat Inspectors, Coxswains, Motor Mechanics,Bowmen, Signalmen and Crews, etc., viz. : —

Cost of Wreck Services, including Rewards to Life-boatCrews and others, Special Rewards and Recogni-tions, Aledals a n d Vellums . . . . . 7,211

Grants to men injured in the Life-boat service . . 595Fees of Coxswains, Bowmen and Signalmen, Wages

of Motor Mechanics, etc 23,685Payments to Life-boat Crews and Launchers for

exercises, etc 6,699Payments to permanent Crews of Steam Life-boat

and Tug 980Pensions and Retiring Allowances to Coxswains,

Bowmen a n d Signalmen . . . . . 3,190Pensions and Grants to Relatives of deceased Life-

boatmen a n d others . . . . . 1,877Pensions and Gratuities to permanent Crews of Steam

Life-boats

15,876 9 5

12,832 14 2

2,157 0 5

1,379

4 54 0

19 6

14 7

3 4

1 10

8 6

16 10

Carried forward45.619 13 0

£277,339 3 1

JUNE, 1930.] THE LIFEBOAT. 113

INCOME.

Subscriptions, Donations, etc.: - & s. d.General Subscriptions to Headquarters . . . 5,988 11 2

„ „ through Station Branches . . 6,881 1 11„ „ through Financial Branches . 18,735 15 7„ Donations to Headquarters . . . . 11,610 0 8„ „ through Station Branches . . 22,553 15 7„ „ through Financial Branches . . 54,649 9 2

Contributions from Harbour Authorities towards upkeepof Life-boat Stations 1,837 18 4

Contribution Boxes (Headquarters) . . . . 423 16 5„ „ (Station Branches) . . . 6,054 10 7„ „ (Financial Branches) . . . 776 10 7

s. d.

-129,511 10 0

Lite-boat Funds : —Civil Service Life-boat Fund, per H. A. Clark,

Esq., I.S.O., in respect of the following Life-boatEstablishments—Kingstown, Margate, Maryport,North Deal and Southend (additional) . . 3,083 17 4

North Deal—Bevan Reward Fund (per the CharityCommissioners) . . . . . . 2 0 8 5 0

Covent Garden Lifeboat Fund, per Bert J. Monro,Esq. (additional) 106 11 2

3,398 13 6

Income from Investments : —Dividends and Interest on Investments

Less Income Tax deducted

Less Transfer to Special PurposesTrust Fund . . . .

Less Transfers to Station BranchContributions, and FinancialBranch Contributions

Income Tax recovered .

. 43,666 9 7

. 4,367 11 3

39,298 18 4

Special Purposes Trust Fund Income £ s. d.Account 1,569 6 8

375 2 7

1,194 4 1

27 1 01,167 3 1

4,523 6 544,989 7 10

Carried forward £177,899 11 4

114 THE LIFEBOAT.

EXPENDITURE.

Brought forward

Life-boat Inspectors, etc.— continued.Salaries and allowances of Inspectors of Life-boats, and

Clerks (18 persons)Travelling Expenses o f Inspectors . . . .Pensions . . . . . . . . .Contributions to Superannuation and Provident Fund .

Administration : -One half of Salaries and allowances of Secretary, Deputy

Secretary, Assistant Secretary (General), and ClericalStaff (30 persons)

£ s. d.Rent, Rates, Taxes, Lighting, Heating,

Insurance, etc. . . . . 1,255 8 8Insurance under Workmen's Compensa-

tion, National Insurance and Unem-ployment Insurance Acts . . 609 0 8

Commissionaires and Watchman (4 persons) 546 10 6Telephone, Postages and Parcels . . 785 10 1

3,196 9 11Less estimated amount chargeable to

Publicity 1,500 0 0

PensionContributions to Superannuation and Provident FundStationery, Office Expenses, Printing, Books, Circulars,

Forms, etc. . . . . . . .Auditors' Fee tL a w Expenses . . . . . . .Repairs and improvements to the House of the Institu-

tion . . . . . . . . .

Legacy Duty, etc. on Legacy from Miss Sarah Berry .

Publicity at Headquarters and 1040 Branches : -

One half of Salaries and allowances of Secretary, DeputySecretary, Assistant Secretary (General) and ClericalStaff (as above), and Salaries and allowances of Assis-tant Secretary (Publicity) and Typist (32 persons) ,

Salaries and allowances of District Organizing Secre-taries, Clerks, etc. ( 3 5 persons) . . . .

Travelling expenses of District Organizing SecretariesAnnual General Meeting . . . . . .Advertising a n d Appeals . . . . .Stationery, Printing, Books, Circulars, Forms, Badges,

Collecting Boxes, Postages, etc. . . . .Printing and Binding the Annual Report and The

Lifeboat Journal . . . . . . .Salaries and Commissions of Assistant Secretaries, etc.,

o f Branches (124 persons) . . . . .Contributions to Superannuation and Provident FundEstimated proportion of Administration Expenses as

above . . . . . . . .

Total Expenditure

£

6,9422,391

74067

4,743

1 69649

134

1,562236809

239

5,551

6 5252,228

287,395

10497

2,439

4290267

1,500

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91190

7

91314

1453

10

10

197

1617

11

7

1613

0

d.

11307

0

1107

1100

1

10

0386

9

7

48

0

£

[JUNE, 1930.

£ «. d.277,339 3 1

10 141 10 9

,

9,471 17 6'392 14 8

40 726 0 7

338,071 6 7^^•^••ttlM^^^^^^^

JUNE, 1930.] THE LIFEBOAT. us

INCOME.

£ s. d.Brought forward 177,899 11 4

Sundry Receipts :Sale of old Life-boats, Life-boat Carriages, Life-boat £ s. d.

Houses, Condemned Stores, etc. . . . 2,300 6 6Sale of The Lifeboat Journal, Advertisements, etc. . 131 2 7

2,431 9 1

Ordinary Income iso,33i o 5Legacies for General Purposes 61,032 2 o

Gifts and Legacies for Special Purposes : -Income only available :—

Legacies 380 4 0Special Gifts 20 0 0

Capital available :—Legacies 21,501 8 5Special Gifts 47,789 7 7

69,691 0 0

Total Receipts 311,054 2 5Less :—Transferred to Endowment Trust Fund . . 400 4 0

Do. Special Purposes TrustFund . . 69,290 16 0

Less Legacy Duty, etc. . . 392 14 868,898 1 4

69,298 5 4

Total Receipts available for General Purposes • 241,75517 i

Transferred from Special Purposes Trust Fund for Life-boats, etc.,included in Expenditure, defrayed during the year by SpecialLegacies and Donations 33,545 15 10

275,301 12 11

Deficit charged to General Purposes Fund . . . 62,769 13 8

.£338,071 6 7

NOTE.—This account comprises the receipts and disbursements of the Headquartersof the Institution for the year to 31st December, 1929, and of the Branches for theyear to 30th September, 1929.

116 THE LIFEBOAT. [JUNE, 1930.

WESTMEATH. — Village Concert,arranged by Miss Rose Chapman, theHon. Secretary.

Wales.(Including Herefordshire and Shropshire.)

BABMOUTH (MERIONETHSHIRE).—Pre-sentation by Mr. T. M. Piggott, J.P.,Chairman of the Branch, of the GoldBrooch awarded by the Institution toMrs. J. R. Heath, Hon. Secretary of theLadies' Life-boat Guild. Speaker: theDistrict Organizing Secretary.

NEWPORT (MoN.)—Annual Meeting,the Mayor presiding. Speaker: theDistrict Organizing Secretary. A vote

of sympathy was passed with Mr.Phillips, the Chairman, in his prolongedillness. Amount collected last year£218, as compared with £254 in theprevious year.

SWANSEA.—Annual Dance at TheMumbles, organized by Mrs. W. Tarr,Hon. Secretary of the Ladies' Life-boatGuild. Dance at Swansea.

TENBY (PEMBROKE).—Special Meet-ing, the Mayor presiding. Presentationof the Gold Brooch awarded by theInstitution to Miss Harvey for her workas a collector for many years. Speaker :the District Organizing Secretary.

Notice.All Honorary Secretaries of Branches and Ladies' Life-boat Guilds

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